Great news! Thank you Brent! If you going to try PostGIS, please leave us your comments about the experience! Cheers, Ricardo
pcreso wrote: > > 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-tp19258696p19299724.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
