+<p> </p>\r
+<h3><a name="whatisvm" id="whatisvm"></a>What is the JABAWS Server Virtual Appliance?</h3>\r
+<p>The JABAWS <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_appliance">Virtual Appliance</a> is a \r
+way to run JABAWS server locally without the need to connect to the internet or configure JABAWS. \r
+What the appliance provides is a 'virtual server machine' (or more simply - virtual machine or VM), \r
+running an installation of the JABAWS Web Application Archive (WAR) on TurnKey Linux. Once this has \r
+started up, it displays a message indicating the IP address of the JABAWS server, allowing any JABAWS \r
+client (such as Jalview or the JABAWS command line client) to connect to it.<br/>\r
+You can run the appliance with freely available program such as \r
+<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/player">VMware Player</a>, but you will need to install it \r
+first. We have tested the JABAWS appliance with VMware Player v 3.1.2 on Windows and Linux, and \r
+VMware Fusion on Mac. \r
+ However, you are not limited to these virtualization systems and can use the JABAWS appliance with any other virtualization platform. You can use <a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf">VMware OVF tool</a> to prepare JABAWS image for a different virtualization platform e.g. <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a>.</p>\r
+<h3><a name="whenvm" id="whenvm"/></a>When to use the JABAWS Virtual Appliance</h3>\r
+<p>The appliance best suits users who would like to use the JABA web services locally. This might be because they do not want to access \r
+systems over an internet, or just want to keep their data private. It is also \r
+the recommended option for users who want to install JABAWS on Windows, which does not support all the bioinformatics programs that JABAWS can run.</p>\r
+<h3><a name="whennotvm" id="whennotvm"/>When <em>not</em> to use the JABAWS Virtual Appliance</h3>\r
+<p>\r
+For servers that will be used heavily, we recommend that a <a href="man_serverwar.html#instwar">JABAWS Server WAR distribution</a> is deployed, rather than the Virtual Appliance version of JABAWS. \r
+This is because the JABAWS appliance is pre-configured to use only 1 CPU and 512M of memory \r
+(where the minimum amount of memory required for a JABAWS server is about 378M), which is unlikely to be sufficient for heavy computation. \r
+It is possible to reconfigure the virtual appliance so it uses more computation resources, \r
+but for most production environments, the JABAWS WAR distribution will be easier to deploy and fine tune to take advantage of the available resources.</p>\r
+\r
+<h3><a name="howtoinstallvm" id="howtoinstallvm"></a>How to install VMware Player</h3>\r