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Please note that ICA-AtoM is no longer actively supported by Artefactual Systems.
Visit https://www.accesstomemory.org for information about AtoM, the currently supported version.

Getting The Guest Image

Stable builds are available here: http://link/

Nightly builds are available here: http://ica-atom.org/dailyVEbuilds/

Running the Guest

KVM (Linux)

See: KVM HowTos, for information on running KVM on your host machine.

From the command line:

1. Change directory to the location of KVM image

cd /path/to/image/ubuntu-kvm/

2. start kvm ica-atom instance (-m sets the memory in MB in this case 256MB, -redir tells the host machine to direct port 8000 to 80 on the guest instance)

sudo kvm -m 256 -redir tcp:8000::80 disk0.qcow2

3. wait until the machine is completely booted(you will see ubuntu shell login)

4. ica-atom is now reachable at http://localhost:8000

VirtualBox (Windows/OSX/Linux/Sun)

Click New
Select Operating System Linux
Select Version Ubuntu
Click Use existing hard disk
Click folder icon to browse hard disks
Click Add to add new hard disk
Select downloaded virtual appliance
Click Select
Click Finish

To access ICA-AtoM from the host operating system,

Select new appliance
Click Settings
Click Network
Select Attached to Host-only Adapter
Click OK

VMware (Windows/OSX/Linux)

...Please pardon our dust...

Xen (Linux/FreeBSD)

See: Xen HowTos, for information on running Xen on your host machine.

Useful links

wikipedia:Virtual appliance https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Software_appliances

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Appliance