Appliances
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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
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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
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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.

.. _OpenWrt Guide: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/owncloud
.. _SUSE Studio, ownCloud on openSuSE: http://susestudio.com/a/TadMax/owncloud-in-a-box
.. _Ubuntu charm, ownCloud 4.5: http://jujucharms.com/charms/precise/owncloud
.. _PCLinuxOS based appliance: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,100875.0.html
.. _Fedora based appliance: http://echorand.me/2012/02/26/owncloud-boxgrinder-pagekite-owncloud-appliance/
.. _QNAP Guide: http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Category:OwnCloud
