Version 11.70.xC5 of the IBM Informix Developer Edition virtual appliance is now available for download from IBM.
There has been a lot of interest in running Informix software on virtual machines. You can now download a self-contained, pre-configured virtual machine image containing Informix 11.70 Developer Edition for free.
The Informix virtual appliance has many potential uses:
- It is a self-contained development environment pre-loaded with Data Studio and various API's.
- It contains getting-started guides for Informix programming.
- It can be used as a base environment for creating a training class.
- If you can reproduce problems in this environment you can be sure tech support have the same environment (though since this is a Developer Edition, there is no explicit support for this edition of the virtual appliance - it is for development, education and non-profit use).
- It has great potential for ISVs developing their own applications for re-sale in a self-contained virtual machine.
Look for future announcements on editions of the appliance containing Enterprise and Workgroup editions of Informix. Put your own application on and drop it in a compute cloud for remote access.
Basics
The virtual machine contains a 32-bit or 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 operating system and the following software installed:
- IBM Informix Dynamic Server
- IBM Informix Client SDK
- IBM Informix JDBC Driver
- IBM Informix Spatial DataBlade
- IBM Informix Web DataBlade
- IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC/SQLJ
- IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC/CLI
- IBM Informix OpenAdmin Tool
- IBM Data Studio
- AGS Server Studio & Sentinel
All the software is pre-configured and ready to use.
Prerequisites
To run the virtual appliance image you need VMware Player or VMware Workstation installed on your machine. The virtual appliance also works with VMware Fusion on MAC OS X, and VMware Server. You need at least 1GB memory on your machine, but 2GB is recommended. Up to 12GB free disk space is a good idea too.
Installation
This version of the appliance is available for download as a self-extracting executable for Windows machines or as a .tgz file for non-Windows platforms. Be sure to download the correct file.
Once it's uncompressed you can see more detailed documentation under the doc subdirectory. If VMware is already installed on your machine, start it then double click on the .vmx file. After starting the image you log in as root with password root (remember to change this password later, this version does not force a change).
Download
Download the appliance here: Informix 11.70 Developer Edition SLES 11 virtual appliance demo
(Be prepared to log in with your IBM ID or register.)
Review the readme filefor installation information, version information, and revision history.
The complete documentation can be found here: Complete documentation.
For more information on Virtual Appliances for other DB2 editions, please contact your local IBM representative or email askdata@ca.ibm.com.
Before you begin using the provided DB2 10.1 Virtual Appliance, please make sure you read the 
