Virtual appliance for CentOS

[grob115]

Anyone know if there is a VM with strictly the base CentOS 5.5 64-bit installed only so I can just download it without bothering with the install process? Or best yet, a complete LAMP with the latest versions? I found some but they're based on Ubuntu rather than CentOS.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

Perhaps the "[A minimal and secure CentOS 5.5 64 bits virtual appliance|http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/575943]" will work?

Good Luck!

[grob115]

Nice. That was quick. However, it says the actual installed OS was 5.3? Wonder why they disabled sendmail and yum.

[Borja_Mari]

Hi,

you are right, it isn't clear if it is CentOS 5.3 or 5.5.

Anyway making a upgrade from 5.3 to 5.5 it's very easy

In the virtual appliance description it's explained that the unnecessary services are disabled. Then the virtual appliance's author thinks sendmail and yum-updatesd are unnecessary.

If the appliance don't need send mail or isn't a mail server, then sendmail is not necessary.

Yum-updatesd is disabled but this doesn't really affect the usual use of yum. It's ok.

Regards/Saludos,
Pablo

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