All: Has anyone started to explore the idea of starting a repository of Virtual Appliances along the lines of what VMWARE does? http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/index.html Basically this is a repository into which end users (including commercial users) can "submit" virtual machine definitions into a central library. Really kewl stuff. So far IBM, ORACLE, and Novell (SUSE) have submitted things; pre-built VMs exist for Fedora Core, Asterisk PBX systems, etc.etc. It would require LARGE file serving capability *somewhere* (no, I can't do it from my home DSL setup, sorry! ) but it would be a great service to provide to Paralells users I would think.. Anyone interested in building (non-proprietary) "appliance" files for Parallels under OSX? I have Fedora Core 5 newly installed with all the updates/upgrades (about 500M worth) .... Charlie
This would really be handy to help people get hooked quickly. The bandwidth requirements depend on how it is done. VMWare and QEMU both offer a collection of ready-to-run imgaes. They both only offer a few images via HTTP. Most of the images they only make available via BitTorrent.
