Building a Virtual Appliance: First Steps
Image by MrsWoman via Flickr This week I've been working on creating a virtual appliance (VA) version of the Kynetx engine. This is a necessary step for customers who need a version of the Kynetx Rules Engine (KRE) running behind their firewall (think SAS70 compliance, for example). This post documents some of what I discovered. (N.B. Since I'm working with Xen, much of what appears below could be Xen specific; I haven't taken the time to generalize it.) First, and most important, there's no standard definition of what a virtual appliance is or how they are built. There are
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