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- | ====== A NAV virtual appliance ====== | + | ====== NAV Virtual Appliances ===== |
- | We've created a virtual appliance in OVF format for those who want to get quickly started with NAV. | + | We've built virtual appliances in OVF format for those who want to get quickly started with NAV. |
- | Most popular virtualization environments can import this appliance. | + | Most popular virtualization environments can import this appliance (Though you may need to use VMWare's OVFTool to import it properly into VMWare). |
- | The appliance runs 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux 6 (a.k.a. Squeeze), with NAV installed from the packages available at http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/. This also means that NAV is easily upgradeable using Debian's //aptitude// or //apt-get// tools. | + | The appliances are usually built on 64-bit stable versions of Debian GNU/Linux, with NAV installed from the packages available at our APT repository (see [[nav_on_debian]]). This also means that NAV is easily upgradeable using Debian's //aptitude// or //apt-get// tools. |
===== Download ===== | ===== Download ===== | ||
- | [[https://eske.labs.uninett.no/public.php?service=files&dir=/mvold/files/nav-appliances|Download the appliance from eske]] (UNINETT's cloud storage "Dropbox clone") | + | [[https://eske.labs.uninett.no/public.php?service=files&t=c46f66d8f03a37493fa9d30252a60dd4|NAV virtual appliances on eske]] (UNINETT's cloud storage "Dropbox clone") |
+ | Stable releases are found in the //stable// director, beta testing releases in the //beta// directory. Kinda obvious, isn't it? ;-) | ||
===== What the local admin needs to do after starting the appliance ===== | ===== What the local admin needs to do after starting the appliance ===== | ||
- | * log in as 'root' and change the root-password (passwd) | + | * log in as 'root' and change the root password from ''navrocks'' to something else (using passwd) |
* add a decent email-address to forward root's email to in ///etc/aliases// | * add a decent email-address to forward root's email to in ///etc/aliases// | ||
* fix the network-configuration (/etc/network/interfaces) and restart network with **/etc/init.d/network restart** | * fix the network-configuration (/etc/network/interfaces) and restart network with **/etc/init.d/network restart** | ||
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* OVF - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtual_Machine_Format]] | * OVF - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtual_Machine_Format]] | ||
+ | * VMWare OVFTool - [[http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/]] | ||
* NAV - [[http://nav.uninett.no/]] | * NAV - [[http://nav.uninett.no/]] | ||
* Debian GNU/Linux - [[http://www.debian.org/]] | * Debian GNU/Linux - [[http://www.debian.org/]] | ||
* [[navappliance-recipe|NAV virtual appliance recipe]] | * [[navappliance-recipe|NAV virtual appliance recipe]] |