Rich Sharples' Blog » virtualbox http://blog.softwhere.org Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:03:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Desktop Virtualization Tinkering http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/6 http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/6#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:59:38 +0000 sharps http://www.softwhere.org/blog/?p=6 Over the last day or so, I’ve been playing with VirtualBox – a type-2 desktop-oriented hypervizor; I managed to get my two favourite Linux flavours up and running pretty quickly now I’m contemplating mucking about with the networking so I can get the images talking over a virtual network.

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Once I have that – I have a pretty decent developer sandbox – something I wish I had 7 or 8 years ago when I was still a developer. Still – should be a pretty useful setup for tinkering on home projects.

VirtualBox is pretty slick – so far – no issues – I just works – which is the way software should be. One thing I’m still looking for is a way to run windows (small W) outside the visual sandbox; I find having a bunch of windows; running in windows a bit limiting and doesn’t allow me to use my (multi)-screen real estate effectively.

Next (assuming I find the time) is to try VirtualBox on my MBP – I’m missing Ubuntu.

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