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VirtualBox, Health and The Mystic Bird

Feb 28

Posted by ScottW in Computers | No Comments

It’s been a while since my last post and it’s mostly due to my playing  around with VirtualBox on my Win7 box. That and some minor health  issues that mostly have to do with my knee. Not going to bore you with  bum knee stories so let’s dive in on the good stuff!

I now have CrunchBang Linux, Linux Mint 8 and Fedora 12 installed in  VirtualBox with CBL being the only one giving me any issues so far to  date. The issues don’t stem from the VirtualBox end of things but more  along the end of the OS itself. Seems they take a humorous view of  their system and say that the name means that at any given time it may  go ‘Crunch!’ ‘Bang!‘ and that’s all she wrote! At any rate, I’m still  working it out to see if I can solve it without re-installing the OS. Read the rest of this entry »

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VirtualBox – Update with a Laptop Twist

Feb 9

Posted by ScottW in Computers | 2 Comments

As I mentioned in my previous article about Sun Microsystem’s (Oracle) VirtualBox, I’m looking to use it for testing other distros of Linux instead of installing to a permanent location on one of my hard drives. This affords me a couple of advantages over the more popular methods:

  1. I can install/delete an installation much easier.
  2. No concerns about partitioning.
  3. I can actually import/export from one virtual machine to another.
  4. I can use either the virtual OS or the host OS as I need to.
  5. In the case of a virtual Windows installation, I can rest easy about possible viruses, malware, etc. not affecting the host system. A major plus!

I’ve gone the dual-boot methods in the past and even had 3 different OS’s installed on one machine that all worked just fine. However, using VirtualBox will now enable me to do pretty much the same thing without having to mess around with the partitioning of the host system. Remember to keep in mind that I’m still getting used to VirtualBox so my reports here are based solely from a novice’s standpoint, OK? ;) Read the rest of this entry »

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Trying out Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox

Feb 5

Posted by ScottW in Computers | Comments off

Just a quick note to tell you all that I’ve started experimenting with Sun Microsystem’s Virtual Box as a way to try out other distros of Linux that I find interesting. This allows me the opportunity to test them out, play around and see if I run into any issues before committing to installing one of them to my regular production machine.

Admittedly, I’m probably behind the curve on this as a lot of folks have been doing this already. However, not all distros come as a LiveCD for testing so this virtual environment scenario will allow me to give them a go without wiping my base Linux installation of Linux Mint 8.

So far, I’m pretty stoked about this as I really liked trying out different distros from time to time. I’m going to follow this up soon with more details on my experience with VirtualBox.

I’d appreciate any input from you folks on a good distro to try too. At this time, I have CentOS 5.4 and CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 lined up for starters. What others would you recommend?

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