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-====== A virtual appliance with NAV preinstalled ======
+====== NAV Virtual Appliances =====
-Several users have requested an appliance with NAV preinstalled. That's why this appliance was made.
+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 (Though you may need to use VMWare's OVFTool to import it properly into VMWare).
-===== Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (aka. etch) =====
+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.
-This appliance runs an outdated version of NAV (3.5) on an outdated version of Debian and can be downloaded from here:
+===== Download =====
-i386: (cooming soon)
+[[https://nav.uninett.no/static/appliance|NAV virtual appliance downloads]]
-x86_64 / amd64: [[http://metanav.uninett.no/static/nav-etch-appliance/]]
+Stable releases are found in the //stable// directory, 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//
   * fix the network-configuration (/etc/network/interfaces) and restart network with **/etc/init.d/network restart**
   * add networks that shall be allowed to talk to the appliance in ///etc/hosts.allow// (both clients to the NAV webinterface and network equipment that send SNMP traps)
   * also fix hostname/domainname in the following files: ///etc/hosts//, ///etc/resolv.conf//, ///etc/mailname// and ///etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf//
-==== How the virtual appliance was created ====
-A virtual machine was created on a VMware ESX server with 512MB RAM and 4GB of disk. Choises made during installation of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (aka. etch):
-  * American English as language
-  * using LVM on the disk to ease the expand-process
-  * all files in one large partition
-After a normal installation, the following changes are made:
-  * the user added at install-time was removed
-  * so was the root-alias in ///etc/aliases// pointing to that user
-  * backport.org- and pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org-mirrors added to /etc/apt/sources.list
-  * installed open-vm-tools (from backports.org) and ran the commands **module-assistant prepare open-vm** and **module-assistant auto-install open-vm** to build the opem-vm-modules
-  * installed openssh-server
-  * added 'ALL: 127.0.0.1' to /etc/hosts.allow and 'ALL: ALL' to /etc/hosts.deny
-  * installed nav (aptitude install --without-recommends nav) and answered yes to all question
-  * followed /usr/share/doc/nav/README.Debian
-  * poweroff the machine and take a snapshot
-  * Remove the network configuration in /etc/network/interfaces.
-  * Change the temporary root-password to an empty one in /etc/shadow (and remove /etc/shadow-).
-  * Adjust hostname in the following files: /etc/hosts, /etc/mailname and /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf
-  * Power off the virtual machine and export as appliance.
-===== Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (aka. lenny) =====
-The appliance described above has been upgraded to Debian 5.0 (lenny) and NAV 3.8.3.
-x86_64 / amd64: http://metanav.uninett.no/static/nav-lenny-appliance/
- --- //[[user:morten|Morten Brekkevold]] 2011/03/18 11:26//
-===== Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (aka. squeeze) =====
-An appliance for Debian Squeeze can be made when a Squeeze package of NAV has been released.
-===== Todo =====
-  * create the appliance in real (not VMwareified) OVF-format
-  * document how to make the appliance send emails
 ===== Links =====
-  * OVF - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtual_Machine_Format]]
+  * OVF - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtual_Machine_Format]]
-  * NAV - [[http://metanav.uninett.no/]]
+  * VMWare OVFTool - [[http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/]]
+  * NAV - [[https://nav.uninett.no/]]
   * Debian GNU/Linux - [[http://www.debian.org/]]
+  * NAV virtual appliance source code: [[https://github.com/Uninett/navappliance]]