Installing Linux Mint 10 (Julia) on a VirtualBox VM with BTRFS filesystem.
Using the release candidate 1 CD

Initial install disk


Hard disk configuration
You have choose the advanced disk setup to create a small boot partition of either ext3 or 4 and a larger BTRFS partition.


Post Install
Post install after enabling the VirtualBox tools as detailed here.


Installing Websphere 7

Installing WebSphere 7 on Linux Mint 10, make sure the /bin/sh is
linked to bash not dash before you start.


Doodle’s Geek Monkey by Alastair Montgomery

The Ubuntu 10.10 release candidate running on VirtualBox.

Need to work out how to install the guest additions so I can get a proper screen resolution.

Found a solution,

Solution to VirtualBox guest problem
1. Open terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
2. Once installation is finished, restart your virtualBox machine.
3. Go to System -->Preferences -->Monitors and change the resolution of your screen.

Lasted cut of the new Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop, trying it out in a VirtualBox VM

First look at Chrome OS running in a VM by following the instructions on gHacks

Giving SimplyMEPIS a go on a 64 bit VM

Thanks to the comment on my previous post I have got the network card on the Windows 7 VM working.

After installing the VMWare tools I had to remove and re-add the "virtual" network card to get it working.

Here it is running our application without problems it seems.

The Windows 7 problems start.....

It can't find a driver for the VMWare's virtual network or sound cards, even although other people haven't had issues with installing it on VM Fusion.

Same on VirtualBox as well.

This covers converting from VirtualBox to VMWare not the other way around.
I’ve search the net and all the instructions seemed to be long winded using third party products as a middle step. Things have moved on this might be easy now.

With VirtualBox 2.2.2 you can export your machine as an Appliance using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). The VMWare vCenter Converter 4.0.1 (free download) imports OVF Appliances.

Sounds too good to be true?

Note: 27 of this post’s 40 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.

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