FYI, It seems to run fine on VirtualBox 1.6.4 running under the host OS OpenSuse v11.0 on a AMD Compaq laptop....
Cheers, Brent Wood --- On Wed, 9/3/08, Ricardo Pinho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ricardo Pinho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] GISVM - Free GIS Virtual Machine Pre-release > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 8:24 AM > Chris Puttick wrote: > > > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> A pre-release version of "GIS Virtual > Machine" is available at : > >> www.gisvm.com > >> GISVM is intended to be a full-feature GIS > Workstation based > >> exclusively on free GIS software, including > PostgreSQL/PostGIS. > >> > >> Please feel free to download it and enjoy!!! > >> > >> Regards, > >> -- > >> Ricardo Pinho > > > > Any chance of a kvm version? There is a conversion > tool that I'm led to > > believe is mostly effective. Also, has the VM been > tested on VirtualBox? > > Just seems ironic to build an free software GIS > Workstation and then > > require a non-free (in speech) software package to > make it work... > > > > Chris > > > > I'm sorry! This is a pre-release version exclusive > under VMWare format > image. > I believe GISVM will be initially for MAC/Windows users > where VMWare is, in > my opinion, the oldest and best "player" on the > market. > And btw, "VMWare Player" is Free and Open Source: > http://www.vmware.com/download/open_source.html > > Nevertheless I believe that a "Standard Format" > is the best solution and the > future release format for GISVM. As you probably know, > VMWare and XEN are > working on the OVF format for a long time and probably will > be the industry > standard in a near future: > http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/pr/view?item_key=3b542cbc5e6fc9ede97b9336c29f4c342c02c4e9 > > I never tried it in KVM, but I have seen several posts > about using > successfully vmdk in KVM. > If you find a solution, please tell me about it!!! > > Best Regards, > Ricardo Pinho > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/GISVM---Free-GIS-Virtual-Machine-Pre-release-tp19258696p19277351.html > Sent from the PostGIS - User mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
