[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] local install for testing

[Dan Scott]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 07:58 -0700, Lori Ayre wrote:
> Rogan,
> 
> 
> Sounds like our systems are very similar. Glad you've done my proof of
> concept for me!  I'd like to stick with VirtualBox if I can just cuz
> its open source. 

Yay for software freedom! Also, most of the recent Evergreen VM images
that I've made were built in VirtualBox; they in theory would run in
VMWare but I haven't tested it, so caveat emptor. Even if you're paying
$0 for the VM software and the VM image :)

>  Can you then install the Evergreen client on the windows side and
> access the Evergreen on the VM Ubuntu? All at the same time?  

Yes, that's how it works. You might need to configure your virtual
machine with another virtual ethernet interface so it can use host-based
networking (this is just a configuration option when you're setting up
the VM) but that's roughly what I do today. I run Linux on my 4GB RAM
laptop, with WinXP in one virtual machine and Evergreen in a second
virtual machine, and the staff client in the WinXP VM connects to the
Evergreen server VM.

> Am I managing the server in something like a terminal window? I
> haven't used any VM stuff yet so I'm not clear on how it works.

You can just use a terminal window if you want to save on RAM, but if
you do buy that ridiculously high-RAM machine then you could easily
dedicate 2GB of RAM to the Linux VM and run a full graphical environment
on it with memory to spare.