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Revision as of 05:18, 16 December 2006

ADempiere Virtual Appliance or (AVA) is a fully pre-installed, pre-configured ADempiere installation running under the VMware player and containing all the necessary software, including the operating system the database. It's ready to run. This virtual appliance has been contributed by Timo Kontro. AVA is a quick alternative to installing ADempiere from scratch.

About VMware and VMware player

VMware player and server are software packages which allow running operating system inside another operating system. You can have (for example) Linux running in VMware on WindowsXP machine, while Linux has no idea that it is running on iron which is only simulated by VMware. And the thing virtual Linux thinks its harddrive is actually only a file in windows.

VMware runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. And it can run many different operating systems (For example DOS and Windows98 works well on VMware). There are many different VMware products, but free (as in beer) ones come in two flavors: VMplayer is suitable for playing readymade images (like AVA) and VMserver is bigger and bit slower but you can run many virtual machines and create new ones.

Both VMplayer and VMserver are really easy to install (even in Linux).

Things you can do with AVA

  • Giving people the opportunity to play with ADempiere with a very easy installation
  • Providing implementors with a tool to make demonstrations and recreate easily the whole installation
  • For testing environment purposes
  • And much more

See also

Useful links