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A VMware virtual machine is available with a complete demo environment.
It is not intended to be used a production environment.
The setup is based on a Ubuntu Server Linux distribution and has the following main software packages are:
- Linux kernel 2.6.27
- xerces-c 2.8.0
- mysql 5.0.67
- python 2.5.1
- apache httpd 2.2.9
- django 1.0.2
- mod_python 3.3.1
- VMware tools are not installed.
The machines is configured with two CPUs and 500MB of RAM. Update the settings to suit your hardware.
To get up and running:
- Download and install the VMWare server from http://www.vmware.com/.
- Download and unzip the virtual machine from the sourceforge site.
- Using the VMware console open the virtual machine "ubuntu.vmx" and start it.
- When started the login screen will display the URL where you can browse the demo environment.
- Instructions about login details, user accounts, database instance, etc will be displayed on the login screen. They are also available in the README.txt file included with the virtual machine.