I have built a number of Virtual Appliances following what I consider to be Best Practices, all packaged in the OVA format.
Please feel free to download and use these appliances according to the terms of their free and/or open-source GPL licenses. These Virtual Appliances are provided without warranty of any kind, so use them at your own risk.
VMsources has created a Virtual Appliance in OVA format, following Veeam Best Practices, making it easy for anybody to mount an iSCSI LUN as a Veeam Immutable Repository. Not everybody is fond of Linux or the CLI, so we have created and Ubuntu 20.04LTS server with all of the requirements baked-in as an OVA Virtual
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Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS User: administrator Password: P@ssw0rd (please note that’s a zero in P@ssw0rd) Open-vm-tools installed root is NOT configured, to configure root, open terminal and run sudo passwd root
Linux Mint is an OS designed around usability. This Virtual Appliance has the open-vm-tools-desktop package installed for usability. The username is: administrator The password for administrator is: P@ssw0rd root is available after logging in as administrator by using the command: su – The password for root is: P@ssw0rd NOTE: in terminal, root may be used
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Fedora Linux (Desktop) OVA was created in VMware Workstation using the KISS Principal . Fedora is one of the most advanced OSs available and a beautiful desktop. The username is: administrator The password for administrator is: P@ssw0rd root is available after logging in as administrator by using the command: su – The password for root
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This Kali Linux (Desktop) OVA was created in VMware Workstation using basic common sense. Kali is the default OS used for security and Penetration Testing. It contains many pre-configured packages specifically for security testing and network reconnaissance. Also, I have installed the open-vm-tools-desktop binary to make the screen run correctly in hypervisors like VMware Workstation.
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Photon OS is VMware’s own version of Linux, optimized specifically to run as a VM. It is very RHEL-Like, so it will be a welcome improvement for VMware users who have been adapting to SUSE in recent years. I DO believe in working AS the root user (instead of all the ‘sudo’ garbage) but I DO NOT believe in allowing
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This Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.2 OVA was created in VMware Workstation using basic common sense. It is as good or better than other desktop OS; far better than Windows 10 and every bit as aesthetically pleasing as an Apple OS – all without the frustration of having a vendor like Microsoft or Apple knowing “what’s best
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This Ubuntu Server 18.04.2 OVA was created in VMware Workstation using basic common sense. I DO believe in working AS the root user (instead of all the ‘sudo’ garbage) but I DO NOT believe in allowing direct root access, so you’ll have to su. The username is: administrator The password for administrator is: P@ssw0rd SSH
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