Koha Virtual Appliances

Last Updated on Friday, 16 October 2009 08:20 Written by Kyle Friday, 8 June 2007 09:31

Koha virtual appliances are an easy way to get up and running very quickly with the latest versions Koha. Virtual appliances make demoing, testing and deploying Koha much easier.

Choices

Each version of Koha is available as 4 different virtual appliances.

First, there is a choice of either a VDI image, or a VMDK image. VDI is the native format for VirtualBox, whereas VMDK is the native format of VMWare products. You may be able to use these images in other virtualization software either natively or via conversion.

Second is the choice between downloading an fully configured appliance, or an unconfigured appliance. The configured version has been completely set up with all the optional example data included with the installation. This is a good version to use if you would like to demo Koha. The unconfigured version has been configured up to but not including the web-based setup system. This version can be set up for a different version of MARC, can be switched between using Zebra or not, and the example data does not have to be imported. This is a good version to use if the configured version does not suit your demoing needs, and make an excellent platform for testing migration from a previous ILS.

Each image is downloaded as a gzipped tarball ( .tar.gz ). If you are using MS Windows, you will need a program like 7-Zip to extract the files. 7-Zip is also Free Open Source Software.

Versions

The Koha Virtual Appliance is available for multiple versions of Koha. Verions with the word Release in the filename are based on official Koha.org releases. Other versions are snapshots of the master branch from git.koha.org.

Download

The Koha Virtual Appliances are currently being hosted for download from the Koha-Tools project at Sourceforge.net

Download a Koha Virtual Appliance.

NOTE: Some users have reported issues with some appliances. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any problems using one of the Koha Virtual Appliances. My address is kyleDOTmDOThall@gmailDOTcom.

Troubleshooting

Problem: The Koha Managent Console reports that an IP Address was not found.

Solution: Log in as ‘koha’ and execute this command:

sudo sh -c "cat /dev/null > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules"