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Appliance OS Installations

You can select either a Linux or Windows operating system to install on your appliance.

The appliance kit is a package of tools and runtime for creating appliances from OS installations. The kit contains scripts and utilities for implementing the appliance boundary as well as a set of tools to assist appliance developers in preparing appliances.

• Distribution installation instructions
  • Installation for RedHat and CentOS Linux Distributions
  • Installation for Ubuntu Linux Distributions
  • Installation for Windows
• Binary archive with one per supported target, including the install script. The binary archives are located in the release folder on the BFC server.

The APK installation supports:

• Creating appliances from physical server installs or from ovf images
• Upgrading appliances to a newer version of the APK
• Provides support for both the Xen and ESX hypervisors.

The APK can be installed either on a boot volume image mounted into a subdirectory or on a live appliance.

The following software is installed by APK:

• All platforms:
  • Initialization script that sets up the network for the OS to operate as an appliance and starts the specific services, such as VMA and CCA.
  • Virtual Machine Agent (VMA) that includes a command to send events to the controller
  • Counter Collection Agent (CCA). CCA is started only if the appliance has a configured mon terminal and the terminal is connected.
• For Linux, a pre-compiled para-virtualized kernel is also provided as a separate archive.

This section contains the following topics:

Common Components

Linux Installations

Windows Installations