[Tickets #8852] Re: Virtual appliances

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Ticket-URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8852
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  Ticket           | 8852
  Aktualisiert Von | david.forstner at gmx.org
  Zusammenfassung  | Virtual appliances
  Warteschlange    | Horde.org Servers
  Version          | Web Server
  Typ              | Enhancement
  Status           | Accepted
  Priorität        | 1. Low
  Milestone        |
  Patch            |
  Zuständige       |
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david.forstner at gmx.org (2011-07-14 13:58) hat geschrieben:

hi horde team,

your software looks great.

but i spend 1 night and day trying to get it to work with dovecot,  
postifx, sendmail debian and it turned out to be too complex.

... i ended up installing kerio connect.

which does the same.

and installs within 30minutes.

so please please please: don't only write great software, enable  
people to use it!

i rather would have used your product and donated 10bugs to a open  
source project instead of spending 250 on a commercial product, if  
there was an horde-mail-ready-to-go XEN (.ovf or .xva) or VMWare  
(*.vmx) Appliance ready to download and deploy on my xen server.

but there was not.

converting an existing vmware appliance from  
http://www.emailserviceguide.com/downloads/horde-groupware-virtual-appliance/
via xenconvert fails horribly. (they have many many snapshots that  
xenconvert can NOT handle)

but it is possible to export a *.ovf from vmware

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/getting-started/learn/ovf.html

also i would prefer debian 64 as base system.

so if horde has an auto-update ability, i would take the time and  
convert the vmware (centos based) version.

on debian i know how to update the system:

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade

on centos i don't

and if horde is not auto-updating i rather ask if someone is willing  
to setup a recent horde version inside vmware server. (free version)

zip it

and upload it (rapidshare.com? i don't care where)

and mail me (www.dwaves.de -> contacts), i will do the 2xen conversion.

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