Hi everybody, if I can give my suggestions, working in Windows environment, VM are often related to VMWare products, which indeed are market leaders. VMWare provides also a free VMplayer which can be used in business environment, at least for testing purpouse. This was the way I approched Xwiki, looking for a Virtual Appliance, as VMWare call it, ready to go, without loosing too much time in configuring and installing. By the way if you go to www.vmware.com/appliances/ and search 'xwiki' you do find it: Ubuntu 8.10 with MySQL Server, Tomcat 6, OpenJDK 6, and XWiki Enterprise 1.7.1. and indeed it does not look too much up-to-date. So, in my opinion, a new user, or someone who want to look inside and compare, would be pleased to find a downloadable Virtual Appliance with a quite recent release of XWiki ready-to-go to play with, in these days let's say version 2.7 or 2.6, not necessarly always the latest release or patch, since once started the VM and xwiki can be upgraded. Xwiki.org could have a Virtual Appliance download section (provided someone creates the VMs!) and/or could promote itself at VMWare site. Since I am not involved in any business with VMWare I have to say there are other solutions like VirtualBox, Xen, ... and an opensource format for VMs that can be converted in the preferred one by the user. At the end the suggestion is to have a section dedicated to VMs of any kind downloadable from xwiki.org site. Angelo Ghisoni
jstoldt wrote: > > Hi, > > Vincent, about the part you had trouble understanding, I was merely trying > to reason why the idea Andreas had about only creating a VM every once in > a while and not on a regular basis (i.e. for every version) is not good > according to my oppinion. Anyway, great that we agree on the wizard and so > forth. > > Andreas, about VirtualBox, at least the full edition is not suitable for > business use if the company aims for using software with a free license. > The extension for RDP, for instance, is not part of the Open Source > Edition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Box#Licensing and > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). Be that as it may, I am not all > in favor for VMs for the other reasons I mentioned so we do not have to > discuss this bit in length. > > Regards, > Johannes > -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Off-topic-Xwiki-and-VMs-tp6157103p6160933.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
