Today I set up a Wave Federation server in a VirtualBox instance of Turnkey base. I followed two sets of instructions which were spot-on except for two times that I got lost and confused.

First, after setting up a new VirtualBox machine using Turnkey Base, 2GB virtual hard-disk, and 384MB RAM, I followed this forum post to set up OpenFire: www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/general/20090814/openfire-virtual-appliance

The only change to that process is that you need to install sun-java6-jdk, not sun-java6-bin. This is because in the next step we download the Wave Federation prototype server and build it. You also need to install ant (apt-get install ant).

The instructions to install the prototype server can be found here: code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation. Again, the documentation is accurate, but perhaps confusing. I'm not sure what good names for test servers are, but my choice of "core.com" functioned adequately.

A summarized list of the steps involved:

1. install Turnkey Base appliance
2. change script provided by jonesmz to install sun-java6-jdk
3. run script to update Ubuntu, Turnkey, and install OpenFire
4. run 'apt-get install ant'
5. perform OpenFire basic setup (admin account)
6. configure OpenFire to support Wave as an extension
7. download the current server code
8. build the code
9. edit the run-config.sh file
10. start the server
11. in another terminal window, run a client to connect to the server

Worked really well for me, the next step would be figuring out how to connect a local command-line client to the server inside VirtualBox.

Hope this helps get a Wave Federation appliance up and available!