New Image: Gentoo 2008.0 server

As per donor request, here you are a Gentoo 2008.0 image built with the (unsupported) server profile. I’ve thrown in OpenSSH, Samba and something else; you need to configure them. If you are going to use the provided example .xml file, you will need to edit it to suit your internal network needs (I just used NAT because I didn’t have time for something more complex than that).

You can get the image here.

New image: FreeBSD 7.1

A new FreeBSD 7.1 image has been added, courtesy of Lapo Luchini. Get it here.

Support forums (at last)

In order to help “younger”, newbie users asking questions, and since nobody wanted to/knew how to subscribe to the mailing list, I’ve set up a support forum here. Its structure is still a mess,  so please forgive me.

Note that you will have to login using a SourceForge.net account (OpenID isn’t supported yet) in order to post. You can get a SourceForge.net account here.

Mailing list for technical support created

As the project audience has exceeded the initial expectations, and technical support request were getting more and more frequent, the need for us to have a place where everyone (including, but not limited to, the contributors) could help other users solve their problems arose. The mail form you used to find there has been therefore removed, and we’ve rolled up a mailing list^?, located at

to which you can subscribe by clicking here. Subscription is needed if you want to post requests; mailing list archives (updates every 6÷24 hours) are available there if you only want to browse them, instead.

There is also an email-based interface for users of our list; you can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help’ as subject or in the body, to

The support page has been updated to reflect the change.

We now accept donations

If you wish, you can donate us a few bucks. At the moment, they would be used for:

• getting a second-level domain name: 9,50 € / 15 $ per year
• new hardware provisions: what is available

The PayPal button is there for you to use. Thank you in advance.

PCLinuxOS 2007 image available

Go get it here.

ReactOS 0.3.3 image available

Go grab it here.

Say hi to a new project contributor + administrator

Here comes Calogero, who’s providing the images published in the last few days.

A warning to (Windows) users

I have received some reports about troubles loading the images. Here are some things you may want to try (please, please, please let me know if they worked):

• Use the latest version of VirtualBox available. Don’t stick with older releases if you can upgrade.
• If you are using Windows, using the .xml virtual machine descriptor I provide seems pretty impossible. Re-creating the virtual machine through the VirtualBox wizard after having registered the hard disk image seems to help a bit.

I haven’t access to a Windows machine for testing. I need reports from you to try to find a fix to those annoying troubles.

OpenSUSE 10.0 (KDE) image is ready

You can grab it here.