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Do you want to try another computer in your computer?Here is a page with VMware images, or “Virtual Appliances” , prepared by ThoughtPolice.

Compatibility

These images will work in:

• VMware Player free!
• VMware Server free!
• VMware Workstation 5.5+
• VMware ESX 3+/VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• VMWare Fusion (Mac)

How to use these images

1. Get the free VMware Player (or VMware Server, ESX 3, or VMware Workstation, or VMWare Fusion)
2. Download the image you want to use (see the list below)
3. Unzip it
4. Load the image in VMware

The images have been created with default options, and for an american keyboard. No updates have been applied, so be careful.Here is a tutorial to create VMWare images Download the images

1. Get a BitTorrent downloader, like uTorrent (free!), or XTorrent (Mac) or Tomato Torrent (Mac)
2. Click one of the fast torrent download! links below
3. There will be a short pause before, and then your high speed download will begin

CentOS 4.6, server install. Long Term Support (until 2012!)

centos-4.6-i386-server.zip, 471MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: a23b88a9db64e3dce27b8b11b02c0cc5Notes: root password is “thoughtpolice”.Quick start HOWTO: CentOS 4 in 1 minute

CentOS 5.1, server install. Long Term Support (until 2014!)

centos-5.1-i386-server.zip, 908MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: b082495b1a01a854c88723967e614cd6Notes: root password is “thoughtpolice”.Quick start HOWTO: CentOS 5 in 1 minuteInstall VMware Tools

CentOS 5.0, server install. Long Term Support (until 2014!)

centos-5.0-i386-server.zip, 399MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: 0cbe6c9551d32483e4e84ed0f87f69eeNotes: root password is “thoughtpolice”.Quick start HOWTO: CentOS 5 in 1 minuteInstall VMware Tools

Debian Etch (Debian 4.0), minimal (netinstall) version.

debian-40r0-i386-netinst.zip, 299MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: 2a1cb887f658701c0b1ff095600ee6f9 (old: 0782efdb31751e6dbbff3d9775064943)Notes: There are two accounts: “root” and “notroot”. Password for both is “thoughtpolice”.Networking not working? rm /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules && reboot (fixed in new image).Quick start HOWTO: Debian 4.0 (Etch) in 1 minuteInstall VMware Tools

Fedora 7, standard install

fedora-7-i386.zip, 971MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: 8e94dd615280c8aa82129c325c6c8addNotes: root password is “thoughtpolice”Quick start HOWTO: Fedora 7 in 1 minuteInstall VMware ToolsNote: Uses the BusLogic SCSI adaptor.Getting Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after an LVM error? See here.

Fedora 8, standard install

fedora-8-i386.zip, 1147MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!) <!–, web download (slow, 2 minute delay)–>md5sum: 102fe7c3b01a22a462f718a3fbc81068Notes: root password is “thoughtpolice”Quick start HOWTO: Fedora 8 in 1 minuteInstall VMware Tools - soon!<!– Install VMware Tools –>Note: Uses the BusLogic SCSI adaptor.Looking for (more) test releases? See Archived releases, below.

FreeBSD 6.3, user install. new!

freebsd-6.3-i386.zip, 220MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: 5b05a4218799db57eebe6b0dd88f2fa0Notes: root password is “thoughtpolice”Quick start HOWTO: FreeBSD 6.3 in 1 minute

Ubuntu Server 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

ubuntu-server-7.10-i386.zip, 189MDownload using: fast torrent download! (immediate!), web download (slow, 2 minute delay)md5sum: 91f35468f9548e3710269e404d9b2ec9Notes: There is no root account. Login as user “notroot”, password is “thoughtpolice”Quick start HOWTO: Ubuntu 7.10 in 1 minute<!– Install VMware Tools–> Get the messages PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel.? See launchpad.For people having a Mac, use VMWare Fusion : you’ll have the main advantage with a Mac to be able to run the three Operating Systems : Mac OS X, Windows (virtualized, or native with disk partition and Bootcamp) or Linux (virtualized, or not with BootCamp).Here is a great HowTo Install Oracle Database 11g on CentOS  under VMWare on a MacBook

Some off-site VMware images:

• VMware’s “browser appliance”
• VMware’s index of community built VMware images

Links

These mainly VMware links are good:

• Make your own VMware images, without VMware: Hack a day, laportestyle
• An online .vmx file builder (you could use this boot from an .iso file)
• Alessandro Perilli’s excellent virtualisation blog
• Debian Administration - an excellent sys admin resource
• A VMware developer’s blog
• Der Standard, an Austrian newspaper, features this site (in German).

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