Using the VistA Appliance

Project Goal

Create a plug and play VistA virtual appliance to support training and demonstration activities.

Development Milestones:

Virtual environment selection: QEMU

• Host Configuration: 10%
• Guest Configuration: 33%
• Installer design and development: 2%
• User documentation: 5%
• Technical documentation: 1%
• Testing and User Acceptance: 0%

Development Steps

Host architecture

• Resource directory
• Guest launch scripting
• Client connection configuration

Guest architecture

• Guest loading scripting

Development Resources

• [1] QEMU Main Page

Installation files

• [2] QEMU on Windows provides precompiled QEMU versions for Windows.
• [3] QEMU Accelerator Module
• [4] Detailed release notes and VA VistA Demo Toaster 20060926

Open Issues & Questions

• Permission to distributing QEMU Accelerator Module

Draft Project Team:

• Chris Uyehara
• Drew Einhorn
• Kevin Toppenburg
• LD 'Gus' Landis
• Nancy Anthracite
• Peter Bodtke
• KS Bhaskar