Build a virtual appliance 0.6

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Below are instructions for building your own Archivematica virtual appliance. This allows you to create intermediate or branch releases to test and use your own modifications.


Requirements

  • Ubuntu 9.04
  • vmbuilder requires KVM which requires a virt compatible processor however, you do not need virt support for vmbuilder
  • At least 2GB of ram

Pre Build

1. check out the source 

svn checkout http://archivematica.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ archivematica-read-only

2. Modify archivematica-read-only/trunk/archivematica.cfg to resemble your file system IE: 

 execscript = /home/demo/trunk/archivematica.sh

should be 

 execscript = /home/yourhomefolder/archivematica-read-only/trunk/archivematica.sh

3. Build archivematica for your hosts virtualization platform. All the following commands will build the same virtual machine.. each for a different platform 

sudo vmbuilder vmserver ubuntu -c archivematica.cfg
sudo vmbuilder xen ubuntu -c archivematica.cfg
sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu -c archivematica.cfg

Post Build

1. boot your virtual machine. For KVM its under ubuntu-kvm, for other examples please see Virtual_appliance_instructions. 

kvm -m 528 -smp 1 -drive file=disk0.qcow2

2. From inside the machine open a terminal and run the following (password is demo) 

sudo aptitude install openjdk-6-jre
incrontab /etc/incron.tab
sudo mysqladmin create qubit

3. Open firefox and navigate to http://localhost, go through the qubit installer for the database settings all defaults will work.

4. Aside from some icon placement you now have a fully functional version of archivematica!

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