[dev] virtual machine bounty

[Alvaro Gilabert]

My two cents on this 

I see two potential users for such a virtual image.

On one side, developers. Not just Horde developers but people who are
looking for a frame that already has resolved issues like appearance,
language, users, ACLs... where they can start coding their own application
that has or has not to do with Horde. 

On the other side, those who live in Windows + Exchange. They can give a try
to Horde without even investing in knowledge. It is not because of the
eternal fight between Linux and Windows. It is because the more people using
Horde, the better the product can be.

Also, the image should have the necessary free space to work with it.
Perhaps adding a second hard disk within Vmware where to include Horde,
mounting the second partition as webroot. 

One last thing I would consider in terms of space available is the
possibility to install a GUI. Again, thinking in those two groups of users,
they would feel more comfortable coding or testing in a graphic environment.


Alvaro Gilabert
alvaro at gilabert.org


> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: dev-bounces at lists.horde.org 
> [mailto:dev-bounces at lists.horde.org] En nombre de Colin Andrews
> Enviado el: viernes, 05 de mayo de 2006 21:57
> Para: dev at lists.horde.org
> Asunto: [dev] virtual machine bounty
> 
> I've been playing around with VMWare player a bit lately and 
> I just noticed the bounty for creating a complete horde 
> installation on a virtual machine. This sounds fun and sounds 
> like something I might be able pull off.
> 
> So I am sending to this list to ask if anybody has already 
> started on this and if not to collect feadback.
> 
> I don't think I even need a full VMWare suite to do this. I 
> can just grab one of the free virtual machine images from the 
> VMWare player site and install the necessary components.
> 
> Here's what I'm leaning towards:
> 
> * Start with the Debian Sarge minimal image - it's one of the 
> smallest of the server grade linux os images on vmware player 
> site, it's what I'm most familiar with, and the Debian 
> organization is painfully particular about stability.
> 
> * Apache 2 (2.0.54) traditional threading model (most 
> stable). mod-php4 (4.3.10). Anything else? mod-python? 
> mod-perl? This is supposed to be minimal right?
> 
> The original bounty description suggests that the image 
> should be setup as a full mail server. I don't know if this 
> makes sense to me. I think most people who would find this 
> image useful would rather just point the horde install at 
> another existing imap or pop3 server and not deal with all 
> the DNS/MTA configuration to make a virtual machine usable 
> for internet mail. There probably are *some* users who 
> *would* want that, but I bet they would be capable of setting 
> up the VM themselves. Perhaps 2 images, one with full mail 
> processing capability and one without.
> 
> * SQL - I lean towards MySQL because that's what I'm most 
> familiar with.
> Postgress is also an option. Any opinions? I'd probably also 
> put phpmyadmin on it because I find it so useful so often.
> 
> Probably it would also be nice to setup a default start page 
> that had some useful docs and pointed new users to the admin 
> pages and what they need to do to finish the config.
> 
> Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
> Colin Andrews
> 
> 
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