Thursday, February 03, 2011

Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit – version 2.0.5

I've just released version 2.0.5 of SMART@znmeb as a result of some comments on the gallery page. There are no functionality changes, although as part of the build process, the openSUSE packages are the latest available. There were two comments.
  1. One user was having difficulty loading the appliance in VMware Player. So I have replaced the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) version of the appliance with a standard VMware / VirtualBox / KVM "vmdk" version.
  2. Another user wanted to know if the appliance would run in Amazon EC2. I don't have an Amazon EC2 account, but SUSE Studio is capable of building Amazon EC2 appliances, so I built one. If you have an Amazon EC2 account and would like to try the appliance out there, please send me a tweet or an email if you have any luck, good or bad, with it.
For some reason, the changes involved in the build seem to have created an error condition building the LiveDVD version (.iso file.) I'll check back with the SUSE Studio mailing list on that, but meanwhile

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