# ownCloud Administrators Manual

# Appliances

If you are looking for virtual machine images, check the Software Appliances section. The Hardware Appliances section is of interest for people seeking to run ownCloud on appliance hardware (i.e. NAS filers, routers, etc.).

## Software Appliances

There are number of pre-made virtual machine-based appliances:

- SUSE Studio, ownCloud on openSuSE, runnable directly from an USB stick.
- Ubuntu charm, ownCloud 4.5
- PCLinuxOS based appliance
- Fedora based appliance

## ownCloud on Hardware Appliances

These are tutorials provided by the user communities of the respective appliances:

- QNAP Guide for QNAP NAS appliances
- OpenWrt Guide for the popular embedded distribution for routers and NAS devices.

Todo

Tutorials for running owncloud on Synology and Dreamplug.