Viktor Petersson.com

About the Virtual Appliance

This is a turn-key virtual appliance for the amazing Open Source video surveillance solution ZoneMinder. The Virtual Machine comes pre-configured with three sample cameras (public Axis IP cameras). Compatible with VMware Server 2.0 / ESX / Fusion.

About ZoneMinder

[Copied from ZoneMinder.com] ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security applications, including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child, family member or home monitoring and other domestic care scenarios such as nanny cam installations. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more video or network cameras attached to a Linux system. ZoneMinder also support web and semi-automatic control of Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras using a variety of protocols. It is suitable for use as a DIY home video security system and for commercial or professional video security and surveillance. It can also be integrated into a home automation system via X.10 or other protocols. If you’re looking for a low cost CCTV system or a more flexible alternative to cheap DVR systems then why not give ZoneMinder a try?

How To Use

Point your browser to the IP address of the Virtual Appliance and you’re ready to start using ZoneMinder.

Download

• Version 0.1
  • VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace listing
  • LinuxTracker listing
  • Download (torrent)

Screenshots

Technical Details

Compiling

ZoneMinder was compiled with the following configure flags:

./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/ --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data ZM_DB_USER=zm ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_PASS=zones506_fiche ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl


About the Virtual Appliance

This Virtual Appliance is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server. It uses 512MB of RAM and has a bridged network device with DHCP configured. For more details, see the README file in the package.

Next version

I’ve received quite a bit of feedback. Here’s a list of changes I will include in the next version. Here’s a list of what I will include in the next release.

• Fixed: Increase memory_limit in PHP to 64M (from 16M)
• Suggestion: Remove ‘.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5 0 0′ from /etc/fstab for ESX compatibility (thanks Johan Cardel)
• Yet to be fixed: Make sure the cleanup of old ‘events’ works.

Frequently Asked Questions

A lot of you have contacted me with questions regarding various aspect of the VM. I’m sorry not getting back to all of you, but I simply don’t have the bandwidth to offer support for the VM. Because of this, I will post some frequently asked questions below.

• What is the ‘root’ password?

None. The VM is based on Ubuntu, and in Ubuntu there is no root password set by default. Instead use ’sudo’ with the user provided in the attached documentation.

• Can you offer a non-Bittorrent download?

Unfortunately not. I don’t have the resources/bandwidth for that. However, If anyone is willing to host it, I can certainly upload it and share the link.

• Help! The network interface is not working properly.

There could be a ton of reasons for this. I would recommend you to search the Ubuntu Forum, Wiki or ask on their IRC channel.

Feedback and contribution

I greatly appreciate feedback and contributions to ZoneMinder VA. If you have any changes or feedback, please drop me a line with the changes, and I’m likely to include it in the next release.