The Virtual Appliances at Virtualappliances.net are nano-sized virtual machines for deploying instant infrastructure and applications. They are Ubuntu Server Edition 8.04 based and available for VMware, QEMU, KVM, Parallels, Xen, Virtual Iron, Virtural PC, and Virtual Server. Available Virtual Appliances are a LAMP Server, LAPP Server, Apache Tomcat Server, and Cacti Virtual Appliance. These are the smallest, most functional, and easiest to use Virtual Appliances available. They are certified for use on VMware and Parallels.
At virtualappliances.net you can download infrastructure oriented appliances. They have 5 different appliances available.
- LAMP Server provides an easy to use Linux/Apache/MySQL/Python/Perl/PHP development and deployment server.
- LAPP Server provides an easy to use Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/Python/Perl/PHP development and deployment server.
- Apache Tomcat Server provides a J2EE Java application server.
- Cacti provides the popular network date collection and graphing application.
- NTOP provides the realtime network traffic analysis application.
These appliances are build on Ubuntu Linux. Updates and patches are very easy to manage with the appliances using Ubuntu's own repositories for update management. As well there are hundreds of applications that can be installed on the appliances from the Ubuntu repositories.