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    <title>topic Suggestions in Virtual Appliances Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Virtual-Appliances-Discussions/Suggestions/m-p/2378821#M9501</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi everybody.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm not going to partecipate to this great challenge so I'd happy to share with you some suggestions, hoping the whole community can be enriched by the best virtual appliance possible.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some of them are based on what I already read on other posts or emails arrived me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Try to stay simple[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Creating a multiporpuse all-in-one virtual appliance could be a temptating path but 25% of your vote will be influenced by this aspect.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also you have a limit of 2GB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A virtual appliance doing greatly a single job is much more appreciated than one doing many job in a poor way.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Contemplate to write a new application[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Distro ultimate customization is an easy approach but won't help you winning the challenge.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In the same way, taking an existing liveCD distribution and recreate it inside a virtual machine isn't exactly a great effort.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Try to be original.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Focus on benefits of virtualization[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Virtualization isn't just having a ready-to-go self-contained server, to avoid too many packages installed on your host OS.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Virtualization is also bringing a technology where it's not available (e.g.: a Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris feature that Windows users cannot have).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you find something achivable only with virtualization you're already half a winner.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Focus on killer technologies[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The more you'll provide something useful today the more votes you'll receive. Pretty obvious, huh? &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Today's hot technologies are VoIP, multimedia centers, documents sharing/collaboration (not just P2P), endpoint security, internet content filtering, privacy defense.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;5) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Consider enterprises as audience[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Choose carefully your audience. VMTN community is made by a large amount of enteprises administrators, not just self-employed professionals.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A virtual appliance for an enterprise audience could bring much more benefits than expected winning the challenge.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;6) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Don't forgive security[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Trimming down your virtual appliance isn't just a suggested step dictated by judging criteria. Is also a mandatory process to grant security.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Be sure to put real effort on security, mostly if you are targeting enterprises.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;7) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Reconsider VMware Tools role[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware Tools provide a lot of features you could use for innovative use of virtualizaiton.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm thinking about drag-n-drop for example... &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@482170C6F13186AA4746798ECA69B77C/emoticons/1f60e.png" alt=":smiling_face_with_sunglasses:" title=":smiling_face_with_sunglasses:" /&gt; &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Avoid Player hacking[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A lot of hacks for VMware Player appeared since its release, to add multiple network connections, to create new disks, to change virtual network interface card.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Avoid them and stay with standard features, permitting everybody to enjoy your work immediately.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;9) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Team with others[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This work isn't just for money. VMware will promote your work in many ways using it as indirect, viral marketing. And 3 months to do something great aren't that much.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Evaluate to join forces to create something really unique.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;10) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Simplify your development lifecycle[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you are not so proficient in Linux distros customization, or simply you want to speed up ideas evaluation, evaluate the use of online service rBuilder I covered in this post:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.virtualization.info/2006/02/assembly-your-linux-operating-system.html" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.virtualization.info/2006/02/assembly-your-linux-operating-system.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Good luck to everybody!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alessandro Perilli, CISSP, MVP&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.alessandroperilli.com" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.alessandroperilli.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Blogging about IT Security on &lt;A href="http://www.securityzero.com" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.securityzero.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Blogging about Virtualization on &lt;A href="http://www.virtualization.info" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.virtualization.info&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:23:55 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Alessandro_Peri</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2006-03-01T14:23:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Suggestions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Virtual-Appliances-Discussions/Suggestions/m-p/2378821#M9501</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Hi everybody.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm not going to partecipate to this great challenge so I'd happy to share with you some suggestions, hoping the whole community can be enriched by the best virtual appliance possible.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some of them are based on what I already read on other posts or emails arrived me.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Try to stay simple[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Creating a multiporpuse all-in-one virtual appliance could be a temptating path but 25% of your vote will be influenced by this aspect.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also you have a limit of 2GB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A virtual appliance doing greatly a single job is much more appreciated than one doing many job in a poor way.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;2) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Contemplate to write a new application[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Distro ultimate customization is an easy approach but won't help you winning the challenge.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In the same way, taking an existing liveCD distribution and recreate it inside a virtual machine isn't exactly a great effort.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Try to be original.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;3) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Focus on benefits of virtualization[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Virtualization isn't just having a ready-to-go self-contained server, to avoid too many packages installed on your host OS.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Virtualization is also bringing a technology where it's not available (e.g.: a Linux/BSD/OpenSolaris feature that Windows users cannot have).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you find something achivable only with virtualization you're already half a winner.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Focus on killer technologies[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The more you'll provide something useful today the more votes you'll receive. Pretty obvious, huh? &lt;img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.vmware.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Today's hot technologies are VoIP, multimedia centers, documents sharing/collaboration (not just P2P), endpoint security, internet content filtering, privacy defense.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;5) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Consider enterprises as audience[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Choose carefully your audience. VMTN community is made by a large amount of enteprises administrators, not just self-employed professionals.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A virtual appliance for an enterprise audience could bring much more benefits than expected winning the challenge.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;6) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Don't forgive security[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Trimming down your virtual appliance isn't just a suggested step dictated by judging criteria. Is also a mandatory process to grant security.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Be sure to put real effort on security, mostly if you are targeting enterprises.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;7) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Reconsider VMware Tools role[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;VMware Tools provide a lot of features you could use for innovative use of virtualizaiton.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm thinking about drag-n-drop for example... &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@482170C6F13186AA4746798ECA69B77C/emoticons/1f60e.png" alt=":smiling_face_with_sunglasses:" title=":smiling_face_with_sunglasses:" /&gt; &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Avoid Player hacking[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A lot of hacks for VMware Player appeared since its release, to add multiple network connections, to create new disks, to change virtual network interface card.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Avoid them and stay with standard features, permitting everybody to enjoy your work immediately.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;9) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Team with others[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This work isn't just for money. VMware will promote your work in many ways using it as indirect, viral marketing. And 3 months to do something great aren't that much.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Evaluate to join forces to create something really unique.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;10) &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/b"&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Simplify your development lifecycle[/b]&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you are not so proficient in Linux distros customization, or simply you want to speed up ideas evaluation, evaluate the use of online service rBuilder I covered in this post:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.virtualization.info/2006/02/assembly-your-linux-operating-system.html" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.virtualization.info/2006/02/assembly-your-linux-operating-system.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Good luck to everybody!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Alessandro Perilli, CISSP, MVP&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.alessandroperilli.com" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.alessandroperilli.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Blogging about IT Security on &lt;A href="http://www.securityzero.com" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.securityzero.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Blogging about Virtualization on &lt;A href="http://www.virtualization.info" target="test_blank"&gt;http://www.virtualization.info&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:23:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Alessandro_Peri</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2006-03-01T14:23:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Suggestions</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Virtual-Appliances-Discussions/Suggestions/m-p/2378822#M9502</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I also want to add:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you believe you have a great idea but you are sure, you will not be able to achieve it on time; do not stop the process but keep working on it. You will be rewarded one way or the other.....&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:54:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Virtual-Appliances-Discussions/Suggestions/m-p/2378822#M9502</guid>
      <dc:creator>bambino</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2006-03-06T14:54:03Z</dc:date>
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