Larry Freudinger made a comment about virtualization that gave me the idea of a 'canned' VMWare image for DataTurbine. You can already download zillions of prebuilt images from VMware; why not one for DataTurbine? (The images are used via the free VMWare Player program.)

The image could contain
*Linux operating system
*Java, with Ant and subversion (See this page for instructions)
*Source code for everything, ready to 'svn update'
*DataTurbine
*RDV
*fake_daq or source.jar
*Synthetic image source (fake video feed)
*GUI desktop with icons for RDV, maybe webdav mount

I've fiddled with it a bit, and have a Debian/testing image working with Java 1.6, checkouts of everything, and latest RDV as well. Having some problems:

*VMWare tools won't install since I don't have kernel source installed - probably simply a matter of the correct deb package
*Network not auto-starting, odd
*RDV/trunk requires Java 1.6 now...when did that happen? It is a showstopper for Macintosh!