Installation/Appliance
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Introduction
Are you looking for the easiest and fastest way of getting started with Openbravo 3? You have reached the right page, this is what you can expect from this tutorial:
- Download and install your virtualization technology of choice (e.g. VMware).
- Get a fully featured and optimized Openbravo 3 installation up and running in about 15 minutes.
A virtual appliance is a minimally preinstalled and preconfigured application and operating system, designed to run under VMware, Xen or any other virtualization technology. Openbravo provides virtual appliances to simplify the deployment process.
Select Virtualization software
Openbravo offers virtual machines for multiple virtualization technologies. This guide covers the following ones: VMware, and VirtualBox. These two programs run smoothly under Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. So which one should you choose? You will be happy with any of the choices, but if you are undecided or if you don't have previous experience with this kind of software, let us make you a recommendation depending on your operating system:
- Windows: VMware Player
- Linux: VirtualBox
- Mac OSX: VirtualBox
What's next? Let's install the software.