Aug 262011
 

It is essential to know, the available options to start up and shutdown the virtual machine—though many consider this as a simple and non-trivial task. Starting up the Virtual Machine: You will need to select the Virtual Machine you need to boot and Click the “Start” button as show in below picture. The following screen [...]

Mar 292011
 

In earlier post, I have covered the installation of VirtualBox in Windows environment. In this post, I will demonstrate the installation of Ubuntu Desktop Linux in a new virtual machine. First, I downloaded Ubuntu Desktop Edition 10.10 32-bit and saved it in my computer hard disk. Open VirtualBox by clicking the shortcut from Desktop or [...]

Mar 282011
 

Installation steps for VirtualBox software vary depending on your host operating system. In this post, I will cover the installation on Windows (vista) environment. As a first step you need to download VirtualBox for windows hosts and save it to your local hard disk. Once the download is finished, double-click on the executable file—contains both [...]

Mar 282011
 

I was in search of a cross-platform, enterprise rich, free virtualization application to consolidate my lab environment at home, and my search ended when I found VirtualBox—a best “free” virtualization software as of writing. It runs on existing Intel or AMD-based computers, whether they are running Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems—and it supports a large [...]

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