Access a Windows 7 Installation in Mac OS X with VirtualBox [Windows 7]
My Clippings October 22nd, 2009 by System
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Tech thinker Anil Dash gets "uncharacteristically nerdy" and breaks down the process he used to install Windows 7 in Boot Camp—and then get access to it from OS X, without rebooting, using the free virtualization software VirtualBox.
This isn't installing Windows 7 by itself into a new VirtualBox image/appliance—it's taking the hard disk installation made with Boot Camp and making it accessible from VirtualBox in OS X. It's only two terminal commands on top of the standard VirtualBox setup and startup, and it's a pretty handy tool for quickly opening a Windows 7 program you need or testing out a web site in a Windows-only browser. Hit the link for Dash's quick run-through, and tell us if you've got any additional VirtualBox-on-Mac tips in the comments.
Tags: cli, Google, IO, ma, Mac, man, quick, terminal, VirtualBox, wind
Free VMWare Player 3 can now create virtual machines
My Clippings October 6th, 2009 by System
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VirtualBox has always enjoyed one key advantage over VMWare: it’s free. Sure, the VMWare Player is also free — but all it can do is boot virtual machines which have been previously by another app.
Rather, that’s all it could do until now. VMWare Player version 3 has hit the release candidate stage and is available for public download, and guess what? It’s now got the ability to create virtual machines. That’s pretty amazing news for virtualization hobbyists like myself.
Apart from the added VM creation chops, Player v3 also offers OpenGL support in guest machines, ALSA support on Linux guests, ThinPrint powered printing, Windows 7 support, and multiple monitor support.
And yes, it even supports Aero Glass in Vista and WIndows 7 just like its big brother.
Another great addition is the easy install wizard, which makes setting up popular operating systems on a new guest machine ridiculously easy. That is, when it works. The wizard should create a floppy configuration file which Ubuntu reads during the install process. When I tested with the Karmic Koala beta, though, Ubuntu’s installer wouldn’t recognize the floppy image and crapped out.
A regular install, on the other hand, worked just fine and completed in roughly the same amount of time as it took under VIrtualBox — if not slightly less.
The download is free, weighs in at about 90Mb, and you’ll need to have a registered account with VMWare to get access to the downloads.
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Tags: cli, email, Google, Inc., IO, Linux, ma, Mac, man, php, Printing, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, Vista, way, wind
Use SUSE Studio to Build a Linux OS From Scratch [Operating Systems]
My Clippings September 30th, 2009 by System
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Think you can make a better fast-booting, Chrome-focused OS than Google? Want to craft a custom Linux system that boots from a USB stick? SUSE Studio gives you 15 GB to do exactly that, and you do it all online.
SUSE Studio is what powered the fan-made “Chrome OS” we posted yesterday, which, in that case, was a semi-stripped-down system loaded with the developers’ version of Chrome, Google webapp links, and OpenOffice. If speed and cloud computing aren’t your bag, you can create a fully functional system with Firefox, 3D graphics, and whatever apps you can find installed. Want your system to start up with an AWN dock and Launchy keystroke launcher running? Not a problem.
Even if you don't know all that much about Linux, it's pretty easy to build a system you can boot from a USB stick or live CD/DVD, run inside a virtual machine program, or actually install it—or, heck, even test it out in your web browser.
Here’s a basic walkthrough of building a system with SUSE Studio. In this case, we’re looking to build a GNOME-based system that would boot fairly quick and use Chrome for most of its functions, and use GNOME-Do as the primary application launcher.
Get an account, choose your desktop
First things first, you’ll need to grab an invitation and account from SUSE Studio. While it’s invite-only at the moment, I received my invite only 10 minutes after registering and filling out a quick survey that suggested it would boost my invite reply time. Once your invite arrives, you can sign into SUSE Studio with your Google or Yahoo account, or any OpenID provider. Not sure how to nab an OpenID? Here’s a quick video tutorial.
Once you’re signed in, head to your “Home” screen and click the “Create new appliance” link in the upper-right. SUSE Studio calls each bootable system you create an “appliance” throughout the process. You’ll be asked to choose your “base template,” which includes the GNOME and KDE desktops, a Just Enough OS (jeOS) option, and server or command-line-only choices. Most folks will want to lean toward GNOME or KDE setups, as they're the most familiar graphical environments. If you're familiar with Linux enough to know how to build a login manager and desktop from a command line system, though, go ahead and play around—you can't really hurt anything.
Tags: Build, cli, command line, Google, IO, ISO, Linux, ma, Mac, man, quick, script, video, VirtualBox, way, wind
VBoxManage Quick Guide
Uncategorized September 29th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
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Sometimes I need to create a VM quickly and get it up and running. I found this great post that broke the steps down:
Related posts:VBoxManage createvm -name “Your VM” -register
VBoxManage modifyvm “Your VM” -memory “128MB” -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 intnet
VBoxManage createvdi -filename “VM.vdi” -size 4000 -register
VBoxManage modifyvm “Your VM” -hda “VM.vdi”
VBoxManage registerimage dvd /full/path/to/iso.iso
VBoxManage modifyvm “Your VM” -dvd /full/path/to/iso.iso
VBoxManage modifyvm “Your VM” -vrdpport 3390
VBoxVRDP -startvm “Your VM”ctrl + z and type “bg” to send it to the background.
fg brings it to the foreground
kill [PID] to stop it
Tags: quick, VirtualBox, vrdp
Mange VirtualBox Server with a Web Gui
Uncategorized August 31st, 2009 by Shai Perednik
The VBoxWeb GUI
Part of the power built into VirtualBox is the VBoxHeadless. You can do everything you normally would do with the GUI from the command line.
This is great, but when I want to just start & pause a VM as I do 90% of the time, its much nicer to have a GUI.
After much digging I found the vboxweb project. Its being developed by a team inside SUN and has great promise.
It’s a freash app and is only available via SVN, but definately worth checking out.
It’s worth nothing that there was another solution called vboxweb that was created a few months back but discontinued.
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How To Develop Websites On Linux
My Clippings August 29th, 2009 by System
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In this article we will look at tools that can help those of you who want to develop websites on a Linux platform, from powerful text editors to desktop and system features. How do you edit files remotely without FTP plug-ins? What are package managers, and why they are cool? In which Web browsers can you test your applications?
I wish I could cover many more topics: using the command line, basics of Vim, Nautilus features in detail, Nautilus scripting, neat command line tools, basic server configuration and many others. But if I addressed all of the issues that arise from time to time on the Internet, this article would turn into a small book. This isn’t an article on “How to do X or Y on Linux” or “How to use [insert app name here].” And we cannot cover more comprehensive IDEs such as Eclipse and NetBeans, each of which requires separate articles.
You probably already have some idea of how to find and install applications for your favorite distros. However, we will point you to the right place anyway to download, for example, scripts and plug-ins.
So, let’s begin!
1. Our Tools
Below, for your quick reference, is a list of tools that we will mention or explain in this article.
Text Editors:
- Gedit
- Geany
Browsers:
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
- Epiphany (with the WebKit engine)
- Chromium (for some other WebKit examples)
General and command line tools:
- FUSE
- SSHFS
- Vim
- Parcellite
2. Gedit
Gedit is the default and simplest text editor for the GNOME environment. The default installation already comes with some good resources, although not all of them are activated by default. It is bundled with some plug-ins; however, you can add many more plug-ins to make it a nice simple IDE. If you go to Edit > Preferences > Plugins, you’ll see which plug-ins are installed by default. There, you can configure and activate them. On the same screen, you can configure other elements of the text editor, such as indentation, line numbering and current line highlighting.
Tags: apache, Apple, Build, Chromium, css, email, Google, Information, IO, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, module, php, script, security, ssl, Ubuntu, video, VirtualBox, way, wind, WordPress, XP
VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2 On A Headless Debian Lenny Server
My Clippings August 8th, 2009 by System
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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2 On A Headless Debian Lenny Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2
on a headless Debian Lenny server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop
environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called
VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a
remote desktop connection, so there’s no need for the VirtualBox GUI.
Tags: Mac, VirtualBox, XP
Usbuntu Live Creator Makes Bootable Linux USB Drives [Downloads]
My Clippings July 22nd, 2009 by System
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Windows only: Free application uSbuntu Live Creator installs a Live CD from an ISO image onto your USB flash drive—much more useful, portable, and easy to deal with than carrying around a CD.
Once you’ve downloaded and extracted the application, you can pick a USB drive, pick the source for the copy of Linux, and even format the drive all in one simple application. There are options for creating persistent storage, so you can save your settings between uses, and you can even boot from VirtualBox if you want to.
uSbuntu Live Creator is a free download for Windows only. For more, check out the previously mentioned Unetbootin utility, which does the same thing in a similar way.
VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 9.04 Server
My Clippings July 16th, 2009 by System
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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 9.04 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0
(released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Ubuntu 9.04 server. Normally
you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a
server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox
comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the
virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there’s no need
for the VirtualBox GUI.
Tags: Mac, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, XP
VirtualBox – XP NIC Driver Problem
Uncategorized July 10th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
This blog post saved me!
After installing VirtualBox on my laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 I ran into the problem were the virtual NIC on my XP machine did not have the proper drivers installed, and I was not able to update the driver using the standard Windows drivers.
The description for the device was “AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet Adapter”.
After doing a search on the net I found a couple of people having the same problem. Their solutions was to install either an Intel driver or an AMD:
The problems I had was that the AMD driver did no get recognized by the device, and the Intel driver did no recognize the device. That’s when I stumbled on the “proper” device. You can download it here.
Install the executable on your virtual machine and then do a driver update on the network card under Device Manager. This should automatically recognize the device and give you network access.
Victor’s Blog: VirtualBox – XP NIC Driver problem.
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