Difference between revisions of "Virtual Appliances Overview"
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| A virtual appliance is a copy of an operating system and a set of applications (e.g. OpenEMR), installed, configured, and packaged together into a single download. The virtual appliance runs inside a virtual machine. The virtual machine makes each virtual appliance think it is running on it's own computer. Some of the advantages are:
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| * snapshots - you can easily save the entire state of the OS and applications as many times as you want
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| * hardware portability - your virtual appliance can be easily moved to another computer, no worrying about drivers or having the same hardware
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| * running multiple OSs at once - run linux and windows at the same time without having to reboot
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| * isolation - keep problems in one OS or applications from affecting others
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| * easy remote control - you can start, stop, or reset virtual machines remotely
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| * OpenEMR Virtual Appliances can be run on any Operating System that supports [http://www.vmware.com/products/player VMware Player] or [http://www.virtualbox.org VirtualBox].
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| * Did I mention yet that [http://www.vmware.com/products/player VMware Player] and [http://www.virtualbox.org VirtualBox] are FREE.
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| * VMware's explanation of a Virtual Appliance at : http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/overview.html
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Revision as of 09:28, 23 January 2012
