[OGDev] Guide in a Box

[David Cantrell]

I was muttering at Kake in the pub a few days ago about making a "Guide
in a Box" available.  By which I mean an image of a bootable
disk/filesystem, with OS, web server, database and OpenGuides all
pre-installed and configured.  On first boot, it would ask for minimal
configuration information - IP address, guide name, passwords.  I can
see this being useful for people who want to run a guide but are less
technically minded - they'd be able to just use the filesystem in
VMware/Parallels/Xen/whatever without having to know about what's going
on underneath.  It might also be useful for developers who could use it
as the basis for installing a guide hacking environment on their
machines without it interfering with anything else that they do.

Thoughts?

-- 
David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic

    It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate
    what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it
        -- Alan Cooper