I collated a list of public data last year, you can check out http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seeking-public-data-for-benchmarks-2009-08-28/
I use VirtualBox when on Mac. It's free and it's trivial to create your own images. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Christopher Brind < christopher.br...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > E) How would one structure the infrastructure for the demo/tutorials ? >> What >> > assumptions can we make in creating them ? As AMIs to be run in EC2 ? >> >> I'd probably go with "virtualbox images" as being simpler for people >> who don't have an AWS key already. (VB can read vmware player images, >> i think. But there is no free vmware for OS X, so you'd want to check >> that before going w/ vmware format.) >> >> > VirtualBox runs on Mac just fine and from the user manual: > > VirtualBox also fully supports the popular and open VMDK container format > that is used by many other virtualization products, in particular, by > VMware.3 > > ... so that should be OK for Mac. > > Cheers, > Chris > >