VirtualBox OpenSolaris Image and Demo - Version 1.0

 (Islandora-IR-OpenSolarisCI)

The documents and files here will allow you to install the complete Islandora stack running in a VirtualBox environment. The Islandora team will be producing other images for others OSs (using both VirtualBox and VMWare) in the near future, so if you have specific requests please let us know.

Installing the Software

1. Download and install the VirtualBox software for your system - Binaries | Documentation
2. Download and unpack the latest Islandora VirtualBox appliance image - ZIP
3. Import the Islandora appliance by starting VirtualBox and choosing the File-Import Appliance menu option. Browse to the directory where you unpacked the ZIP file and choose the OVF file to start the import.
4. When the import finishes you can run the virtual machine by selecting the Islandora image in the VirtualBox app (this version is called Islandora-IR-OpenSolarisCI) and clicking Start.
5. Once the appliance boots you will be presented with a login prompt - follow these instructions to complete the process.
   1. login with username=root, password=opensolaris
   2. run the following commands
      1. cd /opt/versatile/bin
      2. ./start.sh
      3. nohup /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,port=8100;urp;" &
   3. Your complete Islandora system should now be up and running. To access the system you need to determine the IP address of your machine by running the following command and noting the number in the 2nd block of information (usually 192.168.56.101):
      1. ifconfig -a
   4. Open a browser window (Firefox works best) and enter the IP address from the step above. This is the base URL for your Islandora instance.

Running Islandora

Once you have the system up and running there are a number of things you can do to try the features of Islandora. You can of course "look under the hood" to see how the system works and build your own Islandora repositories. This version of the Islandora VirtualBox demo has a fully-featured version of our Institutional Repository system and a generic image-based Fedora collection as examples. In the URLs below, http://ipaddressofyourimage/ is the base URL you determined above.

• Once your system is functioning properly, go to http://ipaddressofyourimage/ to access the main Islandora Drupal page.
• Log in to Drupal as the admin user (username=admin, password-demo) you will see a block on the left-hand side labelled "admin".
• Click the "Institutional Repository" link to see the user interface for Islandora's Institutional Repository. [Note: the Sherpa/Romeo link in this version is not working properly, we load a more recent version soon.]
• Click the "Digital Repository" link to see a different view of the IR collection as well as the standard Fedora Smiley collection. Click the "Islandora Demo Collection" link and then "Demo Smiley Collection".
• You can ingest a new image into the collection by "Collection Description" link at the top and then clicking the open file folder icon, the default Ingest icon.
• Follow the prompts and you will be able to choose a JPG file and add metadata.
• You can also use Fedora from the command line at any time with username=fedoraAdmin, password=demo.
• Instructions for ingesting records into the IR can be found here.