Friday Nov 20, 2009

Virtualised Chrome OS Made Available to All
TrustedReviews
... down by the clever chaps at gdgt who have compiled all the code allowing it to be run using virtualisation software vmware Player/Fusion or virtualbox. ...
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Google Chrome OS available as VMDK to download
Soft Sailor
As a tip for you, Sun- Virtualbox, now has the support for VMware formats and can play every virtual machine that has the extension vmk or vmdk.
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Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.
TechCrunch (blog)
But it will get it up and running in a virtual machine using the free software VirtualBox, which is available for Macs, PCs, and Linux. ...
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Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS
Gizmodo.com
Expect builds to start showing up online, which'll probably work wonderfully in a virtual machine app likeVirtualBox. With Chrome OS, Google is taking (or ...
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Video: Install Chrome OS In VirtualBox | Skatter Tech
By Skatter Tech 
So I decided to make a quick screen cast on how to install Google Chrome OS in VirtualBox. (Credit for the idea goes to UbuntuForums) It's actually quite easy, even if you're computer illiterate. To get started, just watch the video ...
Skatter Tech - http://skattertech.com/
Google Chrome OS: Download Chrome OS VMWare image - gdgt
By dave 
Alternatively, if you don't have VMware, some users have had luck getting this image to run usingVirtualBox, which is a free cross-platform (Windows / Mac / Linux) virtual machine created by Sun Microsystem. You can download VirtualBox ...
gdgt - new in gadgets - http://gdgt.com/

 

Top 10 free Windows tools for IT pros
Computerworld
Anonymous says: Note that VirtualBox doesn't handle Windows 98 very well.... InfoWorld - They say you can tell a lot about a person by the tools they bring ...
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Fedora 12 Linux Distribution Officially Launches
Erictric
I have two separate partitions and Virtualbox to try out the new ones. But so far none of them gives me any reason to budge. I will keep trying the new ones ...
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Virtualized servers need special security care
Search Security
Some software hypervisors are VMware Workstation, Sun xVM VirtualBox, Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual PC. Running a hardware hypervisor ...
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Thursday Nov 19, 2009

The Problem with Modern Life is ...
ZDNet UK
I tried 9.10 in Sun VirtualBox with not much difference to previous Ubuntu's, it was a let down ..design should now be at the forefront of Ubuntu's mind to ...
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The Technology Muse: Microsoft Virtual PC vs. VirtualBox
By The Technology Muse 
Although Windows 7 has the new and improved Microsoft Virtual-PC so that it can run XP-Mode it is not as "polished" as VirtualBox (and of course, VMWare is likely to be even more so - as it is a "paid" solution). ...
The Technology Muse - http://technology-muse.blogspot.com/
Windows 7 bugs have been fixed by Virtual Box updates
By Peter Modoli 
It enables programmer to build an application on the desktop using VirtualBox, and then deploy it to a production environment on a virtual server. Also in April, an announcement was made by Oracle on its intention to buy Sun for $7.4bn ...
Windows 7 | Microsoft Operating... - http://windows7.iyogi.net/

 

Wednesday Nov 18, 2009

What's GNU in Virtualization
Linux Magazine (registration) (blog)
And, for you desktop-level virtualization converts, VirtualBox dishes out performance and a gaggle of high-end features. All virtualization software in this ...
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Google Chrome OS coming this week?
PC Pro
... to try it would prefer to do so in the safety and convenience of a virtual machine - hoping there will be sufficient drivers to run it in VirtualBox. ...
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Reviewed: Parallels Desktop 4 in search Linux, TuxRadar Linux ...
By desktoptowerdefense 
This is comparable to the understood components you can create with both Workstation andVirtualBox. To consider up to its detriment, it also lacks any 3D ability which is sporadically melodic much requirement (albeit in beta ...
desktop tower defense - http://desktoptowerdefense.edublogs.org/
vincentkong.com » Blog Archive » Upgrading Portable-VirtualBox
By Vincent Kong 
When the download has completed the path of the VirtualBox installation should be filled in. Check the “Extract the files for a 32-Bit/64-Bit system” checkbox based on your system and click on the “OK” button. ...
vincentkong.com - http://www.vincentkong.com/

 

Monday Nov 16, 2009

WebOS SDK 1.3.1 Now Available for Download
Softpedia
Moreover, they reveal that the emulator checks the VirtualBox version to ensure it is the supported one and that “the palm-install command-line tool from ...
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Friday 13th, November 2009
Siliconindia.com
Few of the free virtualization softwares are Vmware, virtualbox, Virtual PC 2007 and xensource. I feel very comfortable with Vmware for XP and Linux. ...
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Access Physical Disk in VirtualBox- Desktop Virtualization ...
By admin 
This step by steps method explains how you can access physical disk in desktop virtualization software Sun VirtualBox. Unfortunately this cannot be done easily.
Virtualization Software Tips & Tricks - http://virtualization.sysprobs.com/
Linux and Whatever » Blog Archive » Virtualbox 3 running slowly
By admin 
Recently I installed Virtualbox 3 in Mandriva 2010. I found that it's performance was painfully slow. I spent 3 hours attempting to install a guest O.S. Worse yet I spent even more time trying to figure out why it was running so slowly. ...
Linux and Whatever - http://linusearch.com/wordpress/
thinkiii: vlan tag under vmware/virtualbox
By orca 
When I was trying to add a vlan tag on my network traffic, I found that the tcpdump can read the correct vlan id information when I was using VMware or Virtualbox, but it failed to read that on my host machine. ...
thinkiii - http://thinkiii.blogspot.com/
Running Games on VirtualBox - /gg FTW!
By Miyuki 
[Introduction] Ever heard about virtualization? Do VMWare or VirtualPC sounds familiar? For now I'd say about Sun's VirtualBox, it's also similar as those other 2 virtualization as I mentioned above,
/gg FTW! - http://ggftw.com/forum/


 

VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 1 now available | ITNewsCast
By lizettea
Some major new featuresThe first beta release of VirtualBox 3.1 is now available. You can download the binaries at http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.0_BETA1/ Version 3.1 will be a major update.
ITNewsCast - Oracle News for... - http://itnewscast.com/
Ubuntu - Installing Windows 7 64-bit in Virtualbox | Heratech
By sham
Trying to install Windows 7 in Virtualbox on Ubuntu. Kept getting this error message: "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
Heratech - http://heratech.net/
mikas notebook » How to change the UUID in VirtualBox
By admin
Finally I found a method to easily change the UUID of a VDI Image (e.g. VBOX, VMware). Just open the commandline (cmd), go to your VirtualBox installdir and execute VBoxManage.exe with the following parameters: ...
mikas notebook - http://blog.im-schoenblick.de/
Holiday Gift Guide: Get them something they will love. Get a Mac
Notebooks.com
I would also be remiss if I didn't mention the free VirtualBox. It's not as user-friendly as it's counterparts, but it's free! For the computer-nerds among ...
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PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010
BetaNews
... and ubiquitous -- note, for example, the lack of 64-bit virtualization capability in Windows 7, a feature that even Sun's VirtualBox has in spades. ...
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Rants and Raves » Windows 7 – Virtualization
By roger
But one of the really nice things about VirtualBox is that it will support machines with or without hardware assisted virtualization and it emulates very modern hardware (which makes the paravirtualization of devices much more ...
Rants and Raves - http://blog.rogersoles.com/
VirtualBox just keeps getting better | LEHSYS Blogger News
By Maximillion
I found VirtualBox back in March and it's been just awesome. Version 3.0.10 has been released; I was notified via the automatic updater . If your an IT A...
LEHSYS Blogger News - http://news.lehsys.com/


Novell Sets OpenSUSE 11.2 Free
InternetNews.com
... told InternetNews.com that virtualization wasn't a focus for the 11.2 release, though there are updates for both the Xen and VirtualBox hypervisors ...
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Karmic and Virtualbox video problem at the blog of Chris
By Chris
I thought I'd give Karmic Kubuntu a spin under Virtualbox, which I installed via the Live CD. After installation it booted, but the resolution was very low. Nevermind, I thought I'd just do the latest updates and then reboot to ...
the blog of Chris - http://blog.christophersmart.com/
third world county » OK, “Officially” Liking VirtualBox, Now
By David
third world county - “In a democracy ('rule by mob'), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”-third world county's corollary to Santayana's Axiom.
third world county - http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/
Words from the inside » Resizing VirtualBox Images (VDI)
By jasuarez
So how to resize a VirtualBox Disk Image (from now on, VDI)?. VirtualBox doesn't come with appropriate tools, and after googling for a while, all solutions proposed to use a live CD to resize the partition. ...
Words from the inside - http://blogs.igalia.com/jasuarez/
VirtualBox: access Windows-host | Configbytes
By rstaples
Here's a nice snippet I found when looking for help guest to host file sharing. VirtualBox: access Windows-host shared folders from Ubuntu-guest.
Configbytes - http://www.configbytes.com/

Wednesday Nov 11, 2009

Run IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the Same Machine Using Windows 7 XP Mode
SitePoint
Few of us have the room or patience to maintain three PCs, so we resort to Virtual Machine software such as VMware or VirtualBox. VM software emulates a PC ...
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How To Set Up A Shared Folder In VirtualBox (Windows Vista/7 Host ...
By Duncan 
When using VirtualBox, the shared folder feature may seem a little complicated to use (opposed to VMWare with its “Drag and Drop” feature with files). Here.
Duncs Web - http://duncsweb.com/
Virtualbox and vmware « . : Dexter Cole, CCNP, CCDP : .
By admin 
So to dabble around with a few different server configurations options to rebuild my server at the data center, I decided to try Sun's Virtualbox (free) comparing it to vmware Server (also free). I found for my current setup, ...
. : Dexter Cole, CCNP, CCDP : . - http://dextercole.com/

 

Using XP After Upgrading to Windows 7
Datamation
There are other virtualization programs, like the ones from Microsoft, such as the VMware Player andVirtualBox. They all offer a similar solution. ...
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How to Install Windows 7 on Vmware virtualbox | letmeget.com
By admin 
Get the easy steps here with its screenshots for How to Install Windows 7 by using the more powerfulVirtualBox application. VirtualBox is a free and it is available for manifold platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris. ...
letmeget.com - http://www.letmeget.com/
Spoken Like a Geek - The technology blog of Neil Thompson ...
By Neil Thompson 
I have installed VirtualBox and Windows XP on my MacBook simply to run Windows Live Writer and I wish I didn't have to but I like to blog and WLW just makes it so easy. So now I am considering whether I should go a step further and get ...
Spoken Like a Geek - http://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wordpress/

 

< ~~ Guru ~~ >'s official Blog world.: Sun MS's VirtualBox 3.0.10 ...
By Hardik Shah [--- Guru ---]
VirtualBox 3.0.10. And with it is latest release - version 3.0.10 its become even better. Probably is you're not an Windows fanatic and running Apple Macintosh or Linux Ubuntu 9.04 or say any other OS, the latest release has got bug ...
's official Blog world. - http://gameboyzone.blogspot.com/
3D acceleration with Virtualbox 3.0 : DirectX, OpenGl and a ...
By admin
Install a Windows guest under Virtualbox, as you normally would. Shutdown the virtual machine, and under Settings – Display, click the checkbox to turn on 3D acceleration. I also pushed the slider up to 128 Mb of video memory. ...
The Greatest Linux Blog on the... - http://linuxblog.pansapiens.com/
Testing Remasterys For Karmic
By Panji Nushantara
Before make a USB Startup Disk out of it I tried it first with Virtualbox. Booted back to Jaunty and booted the iso file with Virtualbox, and here it is, Koala meets Jackalope. head to head : koala- jackalope ...
i am a ubuntu - http://ubuntu.igameilive.com/

Friday Nov 06, 2009

Setting up VirtualBox Guest VM Server Networking via NAT « Breo ...
By eric
The VirtualBox documentation presents a few different ways to resolve this (NAT, Bridged and Host-Only). Once again, I decided to take the path of least resistance…which is to do simple port-forwarding from the host OS to the guest OS. ...
Breo Media Labs - http://labs.breomedia.com/
VirtualBox Update for Windows 7 « Windows 7 Uninstall
By computerhelpandsupport
VirtualBox is designed to be a low-cost option to products such as VMware Workstation, and is used primarily for development and testing. A programmer can create an application on the desktop usingVirtualBox, than deploy it to a ...
Windows 7 Uninstall - http://windows7uninstall.wordpress.com/
mSOA Reference Architecture VirtualBox Image Guide | Top Manual Guide
By wawan
Screen resolution should be automatically set to the window size, but if for some reason this doesn't work for you (e.g. you upgraded the kernel and haven't re-installed the VirtualBox guest addons), it can be changed through System ...
Top Manual Guide - http://topmanualguide.com/
Michael's Blog » Blog Archive » Convert Virtualbox .vdi to raw LVM ...
By Administrator
Being a long-time user of Virtualbox I was faced with the common problem of outgrowing the space in a VDI file. I also understand well that encapsulating one filesystem within another adds a significant amount of overhead to an I/O ...
Michael's Blog - http://www.aggiegeeks.com/wordpress/

Thursday Nov 05, 2009

Mandriva flashes its small aggressive penguin
Register
The package also includes Firefox and Open Office, as well as Xserver,1.6.5 and VirtualBox 3.0.8. The PowerPack Version, which includes additional goodies ...
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Mandriva Linux 2010.0 arrives
The H
Updated components and applications include OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.5.3, VirtualBox 3.0.8, Wine 1.1.32 and X.Org 7.4 with X Server 1.6.5 instead of ...
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GNU/Linux: Virtualbox for solving a common small business problem ...
By Gene 
However, malware is rife on Microsoft based systems making problematic any accounting data's safety on a single multi-use Microsoft PC. What is the FOSS loving small business owner to do? EnterVirtualbox for GNU/Linux to the rescue. ...
The ERACC Web Log - http://blog.eracc.com/
How To: Fix VirtualBox High CPU Load with Ubuntu 9.10 Host | r3dux.org
By r3dux 
Updated to Karmic the other day, and all is well and good with the world, but VirtualBox is determined to use a heap of CPU time even when the guest OS is.
r3dux.org - http://r3dux.org/
Ubuntu Upgrade Broke My Virtualbox + Solution | Edmonds Commerce Blog
By admin 
If you are using Ubuntu (or probably other versions of linux as well) and the OSE version of Virtualbox, then after upgrading you might find that your virtual.
Edmonds Commerce Blog - http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/blog/
Using Zune Within VirtualBox | HTMLCenter Web Development Blog
By Curtiss 
Since the Zune 4 software was released, I have been using it fairly exclusively as my media player when using Windows. I really enjoy using the software, and I.
HTMLCenter Web Development Blog - http://www.htmlcenter.com/

 

Parallels Desktop 5 Adds Aero, Multitouch Gestures to Windows on a Mac
jkOnTheRun
And Parallels isn't the only game in town — be sure to check out VMWare's Fusion or the freeVirtualBox software from Sun. I'm half-tempted to upgrade my ...
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Parallels Desktop 5 ships with a host of new and improved features
tuaw.com (blog)
... more "nerd work" to set it up, you can even set up Windows virtualization for free with Sun'sVirtualBox tool (well, "free" plus the cost of Windows). ...
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First Look at VMware Fusion 3
eWEEK Europe UK
Fusion 3 competes with the likes of Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition and Sun VirtualBox, and is aimed at individual users. ...
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How to: Virtualise Windows XP on a Mac
PC Advisor
Three apps make the latter option possible: vmware Fusion, virtualbox and Parallels Desktop. We'll be demonstrating the process using Parallels Desktop in ...
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Linux ODBC connection to MS SQL on Virtual Box Windows
By Marcin Gil 
To get MS SQL installation file from Linux host to Windows guest I used VirtualBox shared folders functionality. Next install MS SQL the usual way. There are only two things to watch out for: don't forget to install connectivity ...
When grass was greener - http://blog.marcingil.com/
VirtualBox/Ubuntu 9.10: Changing Screen Resolution… | Mike Southby
By Mike 
At this stage I am assuming that you already have Sun VirtualBox installed and that you have gone through the process of installing a new virtual machine and installed the latest Ubuntu release. It's at this stage once you have started ...
Mike Southby - http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/
How to make VirtualBox VMs backup faster | Clusty's Blog
By clusty 
Inspired by this tutorial, I decided to try a similar thing, to speed up the TimeMachine backups of myVirtualBox virtual machines. The results are quite nice,
Clusty's Blog - http://www.hexorcist.com/wordpress/
KanManDet.Dk » SUN VirtualBox
By Mike 
SUN has a free virtualization platform called SUN VirtualBox, so whats new in that you might wander – many companies offer virtualization these days!? The cool thing here is the word “Free” and lets add “Fast” to make it interesting, ...
KanManDet.Dk - http://www.kanmandet.dk/
Windows 7 Virtualization
By Dave Mallisk 
VirtualBox for Windows Hosts, which you can download from the VirtualBox Downloads website. For example, here is a procedure for using VirualBox to run Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) as a guest OS within a Windows 7 host OS: Windows 7 ...
EduBook - http://www.edubook.com/

 

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