Not at all dubious, Rogan. We run Sirsi Symphony as a VM and have been for years. We pretty much don't run our servers on anything else *but* VM's. It's just how things are done now. I've run Evergreen in Virtual Box (totally free) on my PC to play with it and it works just fine. Given a decent enough PC,mainly enough memory, I'm sure you could run Evergreen on a VM for a few clients for a small library.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Rogan Hamby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > This was alluded to but to be clear, Evergreen isn't Windows software. > Evergreen was built to run on Linux and is commonly run on Debian though I > know it's used successfully on other distributions as well. Honestly, as > much as I love to spread the love of Evergreen from what I can infer from > your post I don't think this would be the right direction for you. > > Running a production system on a VM is dubious though possible but then > connecting clients, doing the configuration, etc... these are going to > require a big investment of time and energy on the part of staff. > > > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Ben T. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I volunteer for a tiny library that is growing. At this point we're >> looking for a way to manage our check-outs/returns some way more efficient >> than paper and pencil. Evergreen seems like it could be a good solution >> for us, however we are not able to afford a server at this point nor a >> subscription (we basically have no money). Is there any way (hopefully a >> simple one) to run Evergreen just on a single Windows (7) machine, keeping >> the catalog and patron information locally? >> >> Sincerely, >> Ben >> Librarian Volunteer >> Kendall Clawson Library >> >> p.s. I am decently tech savvy, but not VERY tech savvy. I won't be able >> to do any major amount of coding on my own. >> > > > > -- > > Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA > Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, > York County Library System > > “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit > me.” > ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis> >
