VMware virtual machine

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A VMware virtual machine is available with a complete model and a development environment.
It is not intended to be used a production environment.

The setup is based on a Ubuntu Server Linux distribution and has the following main software packages are:

  • Linux kernel 2.6.20
  • g++ compiler 4.1.2
  • xerces-c 2.7.0
  • mysql 5.0.37
  • python 2.5.1
  • apache httpd 2.2.4
  • django 0.97-PRE (revision 6978)
  • mod_python 3.3.1
  • VMware tools are not installed
  • Configured with a single cpu. Update the settings if you have a dual core machine.

To get up and running:

  1. Download and install the VMWare server from http://www.vmware.com/.
  2. Download and unzip the virtual machine from the sourceforge site.
  3. Using the VMware console open the virtual machine "ubuntu.vmx" and start it.
  4. When started the login screen will display the URL where you can browse the demo environment.
  5. Instructions about login details, user accounts, database instance, etc are included in the README.txt file included with the virtual machine.