Persistent. Ovf. Installing Pentaho Community Edition | TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance ... Hi all, I've been looking to evaluate Pentaho CE and thought this might be useful for anyone involved in a similar project - it looks like a great product but a little difficult to find all the information together so I thought I'd try and make some notes as I went along to help others embarking on a similar project. Ok you'll need the "CORE" Ubuntu appliance ISO. I downloaded Sun's VirtualBox to host some of these turnkey appliances - makes it very easy to start and stop virtual systems whilst you are configuring/evaluating the particular appliance (although I've only tried this on WinXP (cough!) Currently, I must do same on a full Ubunut server install).
Using VirtualBox or VMWare or whatever, create a new virtual machine, call it whatever, "Pentaho" for example, if that's what it will be, accept the defaults for a Ubuntu linux device. Now start your virtual machine and it should, after a few seconds, start booting into the appliance. Dpkg-reconfigure console-data apt-get update and type; BitNami: Open Source. Simplified.