(March 16, 2009) The RTEMS Project is proud to announce the availability of a virtual machine preconfigured with the RTEMS 4.10 Development Environment for SPARC and i386. It is ready to run examples on simulators out of the box. We hope that this will lower the bar for getting started with RTEMS and provide a standard reference platform for demonstrations. We encourage all Summer oF Code students without dedicated GNU/Linux installations to try this. It is available for download via BirTorrent. Details are in the Virtual Machines for RTEMS Development Wiki page.