Koha is not fun to install. Especially if you are new to Koha or are looking into Koha as a potential replacement for your current ILS. To make the testing and deployment of Koha easier, I will be creating Koha virtual appliances that anyone can download and run using VMware products ( such as the free VMware Player, and VMware Server).To use these appliances, just install Vmware Player or Server, and download the virtual appliance. Unzip it to an appropriate directory and open it in VMware. Then, just point a browser at the IP address of the virtual appliance, and there you go!

General Notes:
OPAC is set up on port 80 of the appliance, Intranet is on port 8080.
Admin accout is ‘kohaadmin’, password ‘kohaadmin’.
The root account password is also ‘kohaadmin’.
MySQL Server is running with NO root password.

koha-2.2.9_ubuntu-server-6.06.1-i386

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This virtual appliance is Koha version 2.2.9 running on Ubuntu Server edition 6.06 ( Dapper Drake ). I chose to use 6.06 instead of a newer version, because 6.06 Server will continue to be supported with updates by Canonical until the year 2011.

Notes:

• This VMware image was created without preallocating the necessary disk space. This means that the appliance will not perform as well as if the space had been preallocated. All future appliances will have preallocated disk space.
• Some of the filenames indicate incorrectly that this is Koha 2.2.7, it is 2.2.9.
• There is a small problem: You need to change the stylesheet defined in Parameters/Intranet to intranet.css (was intranet.liblime.css) otherwise tabs wouldn’t work in Add/Edit MARC. Thanks to Ileano Bonfa for making me aware of this issue.