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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I like running VirtualBox headless on my Mac. It doesn't show up in the Dock, and feels like it's a remote server.
First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine.
haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.
"WebServer" {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88}
Then ...
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
Mount VirtualBox Additions disk through the VirtualBox UI.
yum install -y gcc kernel-devel-`uname -r`
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run
Info found on tuxtraining.com
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
I've done this using CentOS, but I'm pretty sure the same thing will work with RedHat the exact same way.
Virtualization is now a commodity with several free tools available from Sun, VMWare and Xen. If you're like me, you like to create a new, clean VM for each experiment. ...
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Note: The terminology used below also applies to VMWare. The screens are different, but the issue and the solution are the same.
When creating a new VM through VirtualBox, you might have a problem SSH'ing into the box. You also might notice you get a 10.0.x.xx type address, even ...
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