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A VMware virtual machine is available with a complete demo environment.
It is not intended to be used a production environment.

The setup is based on a Ubuntu Server Linux distribution and has the following main software packages are:

  • Linux kernel 2.6.27
  • xerces-c 2.8.0
  • mysql 5.0.67
  • python 2.5.1
  • apache httpd 2.2.9
  • django 1.0.2
  • mod_python 3.3.1
  • VMware tools are not installed.

The machines is configured with two CPUs and 500MB of RAM. Update the settings to suit your hardware.

To get up and running:

  1. Download and install the VMWare server from http://www.vmware.com/.
  2. Download and unzip the virtual machine from the sourceforge site.
  3. Using the VMware console open the virtual machine "ubuntu.vmx" and start it.
  4. When started the login screen will display the URL where you can browse the demo environment.
  5. Instructions about login details, user accounts, database instance, etc will be displayed on the login screen. They are also available in the README.txt file included with the virtual machine.