What does the appliance do and what unique value does it provide to the intended audience:
Very limited intended audience, but looks to provide a reasonably extensive feature set.

Innovative use of virtualization technology:
none.

Size of the appliance relative to functionality and performance:
Seems to have been unnecessarily built as a full desktop install rather then an appliance. Close to 1GB is far too large for a small collection of web based services.

Comments:
This looks to be a promising and beneficial appliance, however I would suggest that the appliance be rebuilt as a sub 100MB appliance without the unneeded desktop environment.

The documentation looks great, but the user guide should be separated from the how to build guide. A lot of work has gone into documenting this appliance.

Note : This review is based only on the appliance description, not on the actual appliance

For the "torrent-challenged", appliance can also be directly downloaded from SourceForge at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167832

-Brady

Seriously dredd, do you just copy that same complaint and paste it into these things? Not everything NEEDS to be sub 100 meg, sure it will be easier to download, but unless it's a firewall or tiny appliance, there is room for larger appliances.

The new 2.8.3 version of the OpenEMR Appliance can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/889

-Brady