Introduction
Virtual machines like:
- VMware Player ®
- VMware Workstation ®
enables you to run a 'computer' inside your computer.
To make this work you need to build appliances which works within the vitual machine. This can be done by anyone who has basic knowledge plus documentation for each virtual machine and above all time and patience.
NO dual booting risking your production OS and NO hassle running a LiveCD.
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of them work perfectly without any changes. - Ollie Deex USA
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Virtual Appliances
This site is dedicated to virtual appliances that we build for you to use FREE of charge.The virtual appliances are generally normal installs of the distro with some changes/updates and customizations by us. This means that you can go to the home-site for each distro to find information and the package list.
bagvapp wiki.
- bagvapps are built for use on MS Windows OS's in general.
- They should also work on Linux distros (Linux host/Linux guest).
- We test on XPSP2-3 and Vista Ultimate
- We allocate between 384-784MB RAM for the appliance.
- This means that you need TWICE as much of physical RAM on your machine
- Each appliance normally needs a minimum of 2GB of space on your HD
- All our appliances have WMware Tools installed
- Ethernet connection is set to NAT unless specified otherwise.
- USB and CD-ROM are enabled and working.
- Floppy and serial/parallell ports are disabled by default.(Can be reactivated).
- Screen resolution varies but is mostly set at 1200x900. Can be changed easily.
- Some settings can be edited in a normal text editor by opening the *.vmx file.
- We have NO affiliation whatsoever with VMware apart from being regular users of their products.
IMPORTANT!! Appliance spec., passwords etc. are included in the compressed download as a README.txt. All the appliances are subject to licenses as specified by the respective distro PLUS CCLA 3.0 for the virtual appliance creation by bagside.com. If you want to host or mirror our appliances you should contact us first to get clearance. Direct linking to the appliances on our fileservers is NOT permitted and websites with such links will be subject to blacklisting. All links should point to "http://bagside.com " or "http://bagside.com/bagvapp "
HELP!! We need sponsors for our appliances as the downloading is now abt. 4000 GB/mnth or abt. 5000 appliances/mnth. Please contact us at "aakeg@bagside.com" if you can assist. Let us know if you have any proposals or make a donation of any size by using the support button. Thank you.
1. Download VMware Player (Free of charge) here and install.
2. Download one of the *.rar or 7zip compressed appliances on the right.
3. Create a folder on your harddisk like 'Wolvix' or 'Fedora' or 'MintLinux' etc.
4. Extract the contents of the compressed file into the folder created.
5. Launch VMware Player and open the *.vmx file.
6. For questions on use of WMware Player and Appliances in general go here..
Our appliances are supplied on an 'as is' basis and we do not offer any support or take any responsibility whatsoever for your installation.
Contact us at "aakeg@bagside.com" if you wish to discuss appliances.
General
All appliances have been compiled with VMwareTools installed allowing for movement of the mouse freely between host/guest, free setting of screen-resolution (xorg.conf modified with VMware), cut/paste and drag/drop between host/guest is tested and works unless otherwise specified. ALL our appliances (bagvapps) are slightly customized with our own wallpapers and desktop set-ups mainly to suit our own taste and for branding.
We test each and every appliance on 2 different computers and 3 host platforms (FSC Scaleo H -Intel D, 3GB RAM with XPSP2-3 and XPSP2 MCE and Acer Ferrari Laptop (AMD 64) 1.25GB with Vista Ultimate).
The bagvapps works on VMware Player 2 series and Workstation 5-6 series. We do NOT test on VMware Server and have reports that in some cases there are problems to get appliances working there.
Arch Linux 2008.06
Independent binary/source distro featuring Pacman package system. I have built this from ground up using the 'base-install'. Built with Gnome 2.22.2 desktop and kernel 2.6.25-ARCH. Includes headers, dev-tools, Firefox 3.0-2, Yaourt, cups, gutenprint, mplayer + plugin. media codecs, inkscape, gthumb, cups, gutenprint, some other stuff and of course VMwareTools e.x.p-84113. Release date 30th of June 2008. Arch is ranked no.19 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 12GB whereoff 3.6 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 1.3GB. Arch Linux is one of my personal favs and is amongst my top 3 distros ever built. A must download and try. ...DOWNLOAD
centOS 5.2
Red Hat Enterprise based with GNOME desktop. Fully updated on the 25th of June incl. kernel, kernel-devel, cpp, gcc, build-tools and VMwareTools 6.0.3-80004 are installed. Additionally we have installed, Mplayer plus plugins and w32codecs, Adobe Flashplayer, xcompmgr, murrine-engine and some iconsets. Release date 24th of June 2008. CentOS is ranked no.12 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 14GB whereoff 3.8 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 933MB. Very mature and stable although not bleeding edge. Absolutely high class no doubt. ...DOWNLOAD
Parsix 1.5
Debian based with GNOME 2.22.2. Fully updated on the 22nd of June incl. the latest 2.6.24-parsix-23 kernel, linux-headers, cpp, gcc, build-tools and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 are installed. Release date 9th of June 2008. openSUSE is ranked no.55 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 12GB whereoff 3.3 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 679MB and RAM set at 588 MB. A pleasant surprise. Very mature, quick, responsive and stable. Absolutely worth a spin and has become one of my top 5 distros. ...DOWNLOAD
openSUSE 11
Please note this the Final version of the openSUSE 11 (based on the DVD install) with GNOME 2.22.1. Kernel-source, kernel-syms, build-tools and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 are installed. Release date 19th of June 2008. openSUSE is ranked no.2 on Distrowatch. The physical disk is 20GB whereoff 5 GB i used for the appliance. The download is 1 GB and RAM set at 688 MB. Nice, stable and pleasant. ...DOWNLOAD
MyahOS 3.0
aka MousePro and independent Linux distro with Xfce 4.4.2 desktop. Fully upgraded/updated on the 4th of June. VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 compiled/installed in the running kernel 2.6.25.2. The Physical disk is 12GB, whereoff 3.3 GB is used for the VM. 588MB RAM is allocated for the appliance and the download size is 626 MB. Releasedate was 1st of June and Myah is ranked 77th on Distrowatch. Works well, pretty fast and worth a try. Difficult to build as an appliance since the pkg-management system is one of a kind and not all that easy to figure out. Some quirks in Myah renders the VMware copy/paste and DnD limited but it works half-baked on my systems. ...DOWNLOAD
FreezyLinux 1.0
Ubuntu 8.04 derivative. Fully upgraded/updated (35 updates) on the 3rd of June. Following extras installed, Mplayer, Mplayerplug-in, w32codecs, xcompmgr plus some smaller stuff. Medibuntu repo added to repositories. VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 compiled/installed for the running kernel 2.6.24-16. The Physical disk is 9GB, whereoff 2.9 GB is used for the VM. 588MB RAM is allocated for the appliance and the download is 754 MB. Releasedate was 19th of May. Works well and worth a spin. Nothing revolutionary compared with its 'parent' Hardy Heron but stable and pleasant. ...DOWNLOAD
Foresight 2.0.2
rPath based with Conary package system and GNOME 2.22.2 desktop. Fully upgraded/updated (40 updates) on the 30th of May. Followiing extras installed, full group-devel-tools incl. kernel-headers, Mplayer, Mplayerplug-in, w32codecs, Gconf-editor plus some smaller stuff. Devel-tools and headers have been installed in order to install/compile drivers and modules including VMwareTools e.x.p-84113. The Physical disk is 12GB, whereoff 5.4GB is used for the VM. 688MB RAM is allocated for the appliance. Releasedate was 29th of May and Foresight is ranked 28th on Distrowatch. Works well and worth a spin. Terribly difficult to build as an appliance especially as the Conary package system is slow and different from all the others. ...DOWNLOAD
eAR OS 1.08c
eAR OS is a Media Center distro based on Ubuntu 8.04 and features amongst others Audacity Sound and Recording Editor, Audio CD extractor with FLAC and MP3 support, k3B CD- and DVD Burner, Kaffeine for DVB-S and DVB-T TV and DVD playback, VLC for Broadband TV. It has also a smart media control center for playing live-stream radio etc. The kernel has been upgraded in this appliance to 2.6.24-17-rt and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 has been compiled/installed for that running kernel. Another 40 odd updates has been done on the 29th of May and some extras like mplayer, mplayer plugin, w32codecs and gnome-cups-manager has been installed. Releasedate was 19th of May. The physical disk is 9GB and the appliance uses 3.1 GB of that. Default RAM is set at 688 MB. Nice and decent distro without being a revolution in any way. Worth a try for sure for media/music freaks. ...DOWNLOAD
TinyMe 2008.0
TinyMe is a lightweight PCLOS clone featuring OpenBox 3.4.5, LXpanel, iDesk, Nitrogen and the kernel is 2.6.18.6.tex6.lgc. Mplayer-plugin, w32codecs, Adobe Flashplayer, some extra multimedia libs, gutenprint for cups installed as well as VMwareTools 6.0.3-80004. Releasedate 24th of May and TinyME is ranked 34 on Distrowatch. The disk is 8GB and the appliance occupies 1.4GB installed and the download is only 282 MB. 488MB RAM is allocated as default. TinyMe is definitely worthwhile a spin. It has a pleasant look and feel and works like a charm on my machines. Opera is used as browser and the rest of the applications have been selected for their lightness on resources. This makes everything fast and highly responsive. ...DOWNLOAD
Ultimate Edition 1.8
New release of Ultimate, now based on Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron. Kernel 2.6.24.4. Some 40 updates done on the 23rd of May. Mplayer-plugin, w32codecs and Adobe Flashplayer installed as well as VMwareTools e.x.p-84113. Releasedate 22nd of May and UE is ranked 67 with Distrowatch. The disk is 12GB and the appliance occupies 5.5GB installed and the download is 1.358GB. 588MB RAM is allocated as default. UE is an exclusive Ubuntu 8.04 with lots of extras and a pretty nifty interface. Works nicely and is stable at least on my rigs. ...DOWNLOAD
Zenwalk 5.2 b
Slackware based distro with Xfce 4.4.2 desktop. Kernel 2.6.25.4. VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed and fixed xorg.conf to work with vmware drivers and modules. User-agent-switcher installed in Iceweasel to work om sites like cnn.com. Physical disk 10 GB of which 2.6 GB occupied by the appliance. Allocated RAM 588 MB. Releasedate was 22nd of May and Zenwalk holds a 37th place ranking on Distrowatch presently. Zenwalk as always is fast and stable. Good choice generally. ...DOWNLOAD
SliTaz "Cooking May 2008 edition"
A unique distro featuring an OpenBox desktop with lxpanel and BusyBox. This distro is smaller than DSL and Puppy Linux as a LiveCD and weighs in at only 25MB before installation of sources etc. as we have done. It is astonishingly fast and responsive although a bit rough on the edges and immature. This is a gem for those who wish to install a basic Linux on a low-end machine or even on a USB-stick. SliTaz features its own package system "Tazpkg" which works nicely although the repository is still limited. This is definitely worthwhile downloading and experimenting with as the potential is great. Due to some incompatibilities between the source and the running kernel it was presently not possible to configure the VMwareTools copy/paste function properly so DnD is not working although the VMwareTools are compiled in the running kernel. I hope you all appreciate that this appliance is NOT as fully fledged as all our other distros when it comes to cups printing and streaming video etc. as it was just too cumbersome on this first release. A new appliance will be built in the near future with a recompiled kernel from the latest source and with printing and other issue resolved. Watch out here. This appliance is built on a 4 GB disk where it occupies 1.9 GB. RAM allocated is 488 MB and the download is 462 MB....DOWNLOAD
LinuxMint 5 b1
Codename 'Elyssa' is a Ubuntu (8.04)/Debian based distro with GNOME 2.22 desktop.Features Firefox 3. b5 and the following additionals are installed: Xcompmgr, Gqview, Gpm, some smaller dev-tools and the latest VMwreTools e.x.p 84113 of course. The download is 800 MB. The physical disk is 12GB and the installation is using 3GB. LinuxMint is a mature and pleasant desktop and for a beta1 this one is remarkably stable and easy to use. Releasedate was 12th of May and LinuxMint is ranked in 4th place at Distrowatch. ...DOWNLOAD
openSOLARIS 2008.5
Codename 'Indiana' solaris distro with GNOME 2.20.2 desktop. Based on SunOS 5.11 version snv_86. Complete with VMwareTools installed . Extra repositories blastwave and sunfreeware installed as well as Cups printing, Adobe Flash and some media files. 688 MB RAM allocated and needs 4.6 GB of diskspace. The download is 952 MB. The physical disk is 14GB. Quite frankly opensolaris is highly immature as a desktop in my opinion. Terribly diffult to turn into an appliance. Sound, network does not work out-of-the-box but is working finally in this appliance. There is a boot-bug in opensolaris on VMware which results in a boot-time of more than 5 minutes. This has also been fixed by us in this appliance although there is NO official fix for it yet by VMware or Solaris. Releasedate was 5th of May. ...DOWNLOAD
easys 4.1
easys 4.1 is an excellent Slackware 12.1 (the latest) distro with KDE 3.5.9 desktop. Kernel 2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2. Complete with devel-tools, kernel-source and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed . Fully updated on the 7th of May 2008. 588 MB RAM allocated and needs 3.8 GB of diskspace. The download is 802 MB. The physical disk is 10GB. This is one of the best distros I have worked with and I recommend it over Slackware 12.1 itself. Releasedate was 1st of May. ...DOWNLOAD
Fedora 9
Fedora 9 with GNOME desktop. Kernel 2.6.25-1.fc9. Complete with devel-tools, kernel-devel and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed . Fully updated on the 26th of April 2008. 588 MB RAM allocated and needs 3.7 GB of diskspace. The download is 950 MB. The physical disk is 12GB. ...DOWNLOAD
The README.txt file was regrettable omitted from the package so please ...README HERE for USER and PASSWORD.
Xubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu with XFCE 4.4.2 Desktop. Kernel 2.6.24-16. Complete with devel-tools, headers and VMwareTools e.x.p-84113 installed . Updated on the 21st of April 2008. 548 MB RAM allocated and needs 2.4 GB of diskspace. The download is 589 MB. The physical disk is 9GB....DOWNLOAD
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Alphabetical
- 64 Studio 2.0 Electric
- AntiX Spartacus
- ArchLinux 2008.06
- CentOS 5.2
- CrunchBang Linux
- Debian Lenny
- DreamLinux 3.0 RC3
- eAR OS 1.08c
- easys 4.1
- elive 0.6.7
- Fedora 7-Revisor
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 9 RC
- Foresight 2.0.2
- FreezyLinux 1.0
- Frugalware 0.7
- Gentoo 2007.0
- Geubuntu 7.04
- gOS 2.0 b1
- Granular 0.90
- grml.org Linux 1.0
- Kanotix 2007 RC6
- Karoshi 5.1.3
- KateOS 3.6 'Virgin'
- Knoppix 5.3.1 (Mirror)
- Knoppix 5.3.1
- LinuxMint 5 b1
- Mandriva 2008.1 RC1
- Mepis7 beta1
- MyahOS 3.0
- openSOLARIS 2008.5
- openSUSE 11.0 a1
- openSUSE 11 Gnome
- Pardus 2007.2
- Parsix 1.5r0
- PC/OS 7.10.1
- PCLinuxOS Gnome 2.22
- pclosBE RC1 - Server
- pclos-Trans
- Protech One
- Sabayon 3.4
- SAM 2007.1
- Shift Linux 0.6.2
- Sidux 2008-1 Nyx
- Slackware 12 - Full
- SliTaz - Cooking
- TinyMe 2008.0
- Ubuntu 8.04 b (Mirror1)
- Ubuntu 8.04 b (Mirror2)
- Ubuntu 8.04 b
- Ultimate Edition 1.8
- Vector Linux 5.9
- WBEL4 RS2-Server
- WolvixCub 1.1.0 RC2
- Xubuntu 8.04
- Yoper 3.0.1 Titanium
- Zenserver 0.5
- Zenwalk 5.2b
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