Tickets :: Comment on [#8852] Virtual appliances

* Your Email Address
* Spam protection	Enter the letters below: . . __ . , __..__ \ // ` \./ (__ [ __ \/ \__. \| .__)[_./
Comment	> 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. > > -- > mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards >
Attachment
Watch this ticket

Saved Queries