These two builds represent a major milestone for Virtual Appliances- they are the first appliances we have released that have shell access enabled!

That’s right! For everybody who asked for shell access, it is now enabled! Tasks such as migrating existing Cacti data, adding/editing cronjobs, or editing the php.ini file in the LAMP VA are now easily possible using the shell.

Other new/improved features include:

• Improved networking configuration - now supports static routes (user requested feature)
• Cacti VA exports pseudo-root filesystem containing scripts and resource directory from Cacti installation. This allows end-user installed Cacti plugins & extensions.
• Cacti VA is now an easily expandable two virtual hard disk configuration, which allows for simple expansion to accomodate polling more data for large sites.
• Updated PHP, MySQL, and other binaries. …

Our new LAMP Virtual Appliance provides turnkey Apache HTTP Server, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL in one easy to use 65MB download.

This appliance features optional use of virtual hard disks for MySQL and web content.  Uniquely, this Virtual Appliance shares the web content via CIFS/Windows Networking for extremely easy to use content publication and mnagement.  Many popular web applications can be deployed using this appliance.

As usual, free to download and use …

For all you SNMP afficianados, a database logging SNMP client has never been easier.

The Cacti Virtual Appliance is running Cacti in just a couple of minutes with a fully automated setup, onboard MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

The Cacti Virtual Appliances comes outfitted with about 1.7 GB of diskspace, but can automatically use Virtual Hard Disks so there is no limit to how much SNMP data can be stored.

To learn more about Cacti, visit the Cacti Homepage.
Download the nano sized (40MB) virtual computer image from our downloads page.

Hot from the Virtual Appliance Turkey Fryer, build 74 of the PostgreSQL Virtual Appliance is available for download here

This appliance features automated use of Virtual Hard disks to allow the nano sized appliance to access any size storage for its database.

This appliance provides an upgrade to PostgreSQL 8.1.4.

Enjoy.

A new MySQL Virtual Appliance is now available for download.

This new virtual appliance runs MySQL Version 5.0.1 which provides some great new features, including new datatypes, support for schemas, increased performance and triggers.

As well, this is the first virtual appliance featuring fully automated use of extra Virtual Hard Disks, which opens the door to practically unlimited storage potential using a small appliance, in spite of a small disk image size.

Any VMware or Virtual PC VHDs working, including physical volumes and VI3’s ESX hosted
iSCSI or Fiber Channel SAN volumes.

We will post a pictorial on how to use VHDs shortly.

As usual, our download images are nice and tiny.  Just 27MB for all this MySQL goodness.

We are very pleased to announce the release of the MySQL Virtual Appliance. Literally the easiest and fastest way to get MySQL running. The MySQL Virtual Appliance is just 22MB to download, and is running MySQL and PHPMyAdmin right out of the box with no configuration.

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