I’m a big fan of the ideas behing Cloud Foundry from VMware, and spent a fair bit of time getting it up and running on AWS, so it’s really cool that there’s now a fully packaged Micro Cloud Foundry now available as a VM, as detailed by this blog post.

I spent some time last night and this morning trying it out, and basically it’s exactly what you’d expect – a full copy of Cloud Foundry, except you boot it up on your laptop (or on a vSphere host) in a VM, and away you go. You could probably even convert the VM image to run in Xen or VirtualBox, but don’t tell VMware, ok? 🙂

It does some very nice DNS tricks to let you handle all the management through the standard tools, and worked exactly as I expected it, so if you’re at all curious about Cloud Foundry, and perhaps a bit uncomfortable about using the public cloudfoundry.com hosted service for your experiments, then grab it now!