[Glass] GLASS appliance (VMWare virtual machine) still available?

[Martin McClure via Glass]

On 02/09/2015 07:55 AM, FrankB via Glass wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you for the answers (though it's not what I had hoped for). Actually,
> before posting here I had gone through all available links but they were all
> dead-ends.
>
> If I will have to go through this awful hassle of installing it all, then I
> will forget about a VM and install it directly on my OpenSuSe machine,
> because:
> - it' kind of the "German Linux"
> - a cousin of mine has been working for them for many years and still knows
> many of their staff in Nürnberg
> - and they seem to be leading in the corporate arena
> - YAST saves me from a lot of this ugly ASCII terminal typing
> - it's a shame that this world has not much improved in almost 30 years
> since I started working with *nix and selling Xenix, later Unix V based
> solutions way back in 1986 !!!

As you can see from the other replies, some find the install to be easy. 
In the past, others have had problems, sometimes with network 
configuration. We've made improvements to the product to eliminate some 
of the problem scenarios. I hope your install is easy, but if it's not, 
let the list know. We'll help you figure out how to get past whatever 
the hangup is, and it will give us good feedback for continued improvement.

>
> BTW: VW5 runs batches (parsing crawled files) on SuSe about 2,5-3 times
> faster compared to Win7 with almost identical hardware.

Ha! Not too surprising.

Regards,

-Martin