Virtual Appliances

Virtual appliances allows you to run sql-ledger and ledgersmb without any installation headaches on your Windows or Linux machines. These appliances are great for testing and learning.

With ever-increasing computer hardware capabilities, virtual appliances seem to be the future of distributing and deploying servers.

We also offer free sql-ledger hosting which can help you evaluate sql-ledger and use it for a small business.

1. Two appliances are available:

• http://download.ledger123.com/FreeBSD-basic-0.10.tar.bz2 (138 MB, 15-Aug-2008)
• http://download.ledger123.com/Ledger123-ubuntu810-jeos-0.20.tar.bz2 (351 MB, 15-Jan-2009)

1. Decompress. Use 7zip to decompress the bz2 file on windows.

1. Download the free VMware player available at http://www.vmware.com/player.

1. Open the virtual machine from within the VMware player.

1. Point your browser to http://appliance.ip.address/sql-ledger/admin.pl and create datasets. (see below on how to determine the IP address)

1. Postgres user is 'pgsql' without any password.
2. phpPgAdmin can be accessed at http://appliance.ip.address/phppgadmin/

1. Point your browser to http://appliance.ip.address/index.html. This page contains links to the installed software.

1. Postgres user is 'postgres' without any password.

There are two ways to find the IP address of your appliance:

1. Power the appliance using vmplayer and watch the boot process to see the IP address assigned to the appliance. It will be something like 192.168.128.208 or 172.16.186.136 etc.

1. Logon to the appliance console. User is root and password is ledger123. Issue ifconfig to display the all IP addresses. Find one which starts from 192 or 172.

Note: Password is ledger123 everywhere.

Support is available. Visit http://www.ledger123.com/order for details.