# Virtual Appliances

A virtual appliance is a preconfigured application and OS that are bundled together for use in a virtualized environment or on a virtual machine. Platform9 supplies and Open Virtual Application (or OVA) file that can be utilized on either the VirtualBox or VMWare platforms.

For more information about the OVA itself, please visit the [auto$](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/kubernetes/get-started-pmk-ova/README.md) page for more details. For further details and features regarding [auto$](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/kubernetes/get-started-pmk-ova-virtualbox/README.md) or [Deploying an OVA Using VMware Workstation](https://github.com/platform9/pcd-docs-gitbook/blob/main/kubernetes/get-started-pmk-ova-vmware/README.md#deploy-using-vmware-workstation), follow those links.


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