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==Things you can do with AVA==
 
==Things you can do with AVA==

Revision as of 04:50, 25 January 2008

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 was first started 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).


Installation of AVA

Installation under Ubuntu 7.10

I assume that you've already running VMWare Player or VMWare Server - it's easily apt-getable.

You've to download all pieces of AVA (ava_331b.7z.1, ava_331b.7z.2, ava_331b.7z.3, ava_331b.7z.4 and Create_ava_331b.zip(!))


After your download finished, place all files in one directory (e.g. ~/adempiere_ava) and just unzip Create_ava_331.zip.

cd ~/adempiere_ava
unzip Create_ava_331.zip

This action creates a Readme.txt and Create_ava_331b.exe. Please read the Readme ;) Since we're running linux, you need to use wine for Create_ava_331b.exe, so you've to apt-get it:

sudo apt-get install wine

Now we're ready to start "The File Spliter" (also known as Create_ava_331b.exe) throught wine:

cd ~/adempiere_ava
wine Create_ava_331b.exe

For extracting in the current directory, just press the magic ok button. This creates the file ava_331b.7z, which is a 7zip archive. 7z extractors are also easily apt-getable throught universe. After that, extract the archive:

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
p7zip -d ava_331b.7z

Your virtual machine is now available under the directory ~/ava_331b/.

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