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== Configuration == | == Configuration == | ||
I have | I have one virtual machine, Vista, which is my installation of [[Windows Vista]]. | ||
== Installation == | |||
I'm using the non-free version, which has some additional support. | |||
* [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads Download and installation] | |||
When I've played with VirtualBox in the past, in order to install my copy of [[Windows Vista]], which is tied to the BIOS on my [[Dell Inspiron 531]], I've had to [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#changedmi configure the BIOS DMI], which I never bothered doing. No need with VirtualBox 3.0! Installation works out of the box. Yeah! | |||
== Virtual File Server == | |||
I | I experimented with another virtual machine, NAS, running [[Ubuntu]] server. I wanted to run this headless: | ||
<pre>VBoxHeadless -startvm NAS &</pre> | |||
I | I created and installed an init.d script using [http://www.glump.net/howto/virtualbox_as_a_service this script] as a starting point. | ||
It worked beautifully, but I realized it was unnecessary. | |||
One potential issue was with disk size. I had configured a 750GB virtual disk, then realized that I didn't know [[Wikipedia:Ext3|ext3]]'s file size limits. Turns out that for 4KB block sizes (which is what I have), it's 2TB, which was plenty for my needs. | |||
Revision as of 22:23, 7 July 2009
Configuration
I have one virtual machine, Vista, which is my installation of Windows Vista.
Installation
I'm using the non-free version, which has some additional support.
When I've played with VirtualBox in the past, in order to install my copy of Windows Vista, which is tied to the BIOS on my Dell Inspiron 531, I've had to configure the BIOS DMI, which I never bothered doing. No need with VirtualBox 3.0! Installation works out of the box. Yeah!
Virtual File Server
I experimented with another virtual machine, NAS, running Ubuntu server. I wanted to run this headless:
VBoxHeadless -startvm NAS &
I created and installed an init.d script using this script as a starting point.
It worked beautifully, but I realized it was unnecessary.
One potential issue was with disk size. I had configured a 750GB virtual disk, then realized that I didn't know ext3's file size limits. Turns out that for 4KB block sizes (which is what I have), it's 2TB, which was plenty for my needs.
