Virtualization is really useful for webservers, which are pretty low-resource but are good to have in numbers for the sake of redundancy. So you can make much better use of a resource-rich system by virtualizing it and putting several webservers … Continue reading
The last few entries have explained, command-by-command, how to create virtual machines and prepare them for OS installation, with some details about how to unwind this work (i.e. delete everything cleanly). In the process of writing the entries, I’ve learned … Continue reading
This is at once one of the simpler and one of the most crucial of these posts. Your virtual machine is going to be pretty useless unless you have an operating system installed on it, and specifying the OS type … Continue reading
Since writing my last post (VirtualBox on the command line: Creating and deleting VMs), I’ve discovered some tricky bits that anybody relying on the post will run into if using the newest version of VirtualBox CSE (3.1.2 at the time … Continue reading
I am creating some new VMs on a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic/Kreepy Koala), so now is a great time to extract and organize each step used to create a new VM on the command line, and double-check all … Continue reading