I was installing VirtualPC so I could run their free IE images for testing and I wondered if VirtualBox supported the VirtualPC .vhd file format. Last time I had checked (a while ago) it did not and you had to run through a conversion process. Looks like somewhere around VirtualBox 2.x they added support to [...]
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At work I have ReviewBoard running on VirtualBox on one of my development machines. This has been working great but every once in awhile I accidentally close the VirtualBox console because it’s sitting in my taskbar: I remember reading about a ‘headless’ mode in the VirtualBox documentation. This will setup VirtualBox running as a RDP [...]
For More Information on Shared Folders (Virtual Directories): VirtualBox documentation on Shared Folders Alternate method of sharing folders Ubuntu docs on shared folders
I’ve finally posted my instructions for getting ColdFusion 9 up and running on VirtualBox! It took me a few times to work through the process and get everything working (and documented) and at one point I forgot the password on the VM image and had to start over again. Oooops. Documentation is now on my [...]
I needed to move one of my VirtualBox setups to another computer but the disk image was huge and wouldn’t fit on my thumbdrive. Digging around in the VirtualBox settings I noticed an import/export function. The original disk image was 4.13GB. Exporting it resulted in two files that totalled 1.75GB! That will easily fit on [...]