On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Amit k. Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> The very concept of Virtual appliance is that you *don't* have to >> create a new configuration or a new VM which in VBox terms is using >> the existing XML file. > > The problem is that VirtualBox does not (to my knowledge) have the ability > to package a virtual machine into a single file. > > Also the "appliances" word is yours, not Virtualbox's. Even in the page you > quote > http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/ > > The files are referred to as "virtual machines" not "virtual appliances". > When I read "appliance" I think about a hardware device that does a specific > function (ie Google Appliance http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/ ).
Then, there is Software Appliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_appliance and Virtual Appliance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_appliance > >> >> And when you create a virtual appliance, you are doing it for someone >> other than you to give it a spin without any or minimal configuration. > > There isn't much configuration to do. Other than selecting the OS type and > selecting the VDI image. > >> Well, it was no-where mentioned here at >> http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/images/damn-small/ that it was done >> with VBox on a Max OS-X host. > > What matters is the guest OS type selection. > The host OS used to create it shouldn't matter. > > In any case, what you are complaining about is something I complained about > on this list back in the days of Virtualbox 1.5.6 days... > It'd be nice if there would be a "single file" to match the "VMware Player" > approach. The above site has a register script which I am not able to d/l. So I thought of giving it a try. Actually I am working on an article on "Virtual Appliances" with my main focus on VBox. -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com Skype: amitkumarsaha _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
