Debian in VirtualBox for local web development
Have you ever wanted to develop your web application locally. Using VirtualBox you can develop with a near clone of your production environment. Giving you a personal sandbox where you can go crazy...
View ArticleInstalling VirtualBox under Debian Lenny
After a fresh installation of Debian Lenny, I wanted to use a quite very recent version of VirtualBox. One solution is the Debian backports : Here are the VirtualBox packages available More here
View ArticleBase Debian Install on VirtualBox
I am determined to try out CouchDB 0.11. Since I don’t want to muck with the nice dev environment that I have going I will install that onto a VM. So I fire up VirtualBox and create a new VM: More here
View ArticleHow to add the VirtualBox keyring to Debian and Ubuntu
This blog post explains how to add the Sun and Oracle VirtualBox keyring to Debian and Ubuntu, to prevent apt-get update from complaining. More here
View ArticleConfiguring MacGDBp for Debugging a Local Debian Virtual Machine
In my current Drupal development environment, I run an entire Debian server stack (LAMP + Memcache + Varnish, etc) inside of a VirtualBox virtual machine. On those frustration-laden occasions when I...
View ArticleInstalling VirtualBox 2 On A Debian Lenny Desktop
This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox 2 on a Debian Lenny desktop. VirtualBox is available as a package from the official Debian Lenny repository, but it’s very old (version...
View ArticleProperly install VirtualBox 4 beta in Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint (and other...
I downloaded deb of VirtualBox beta 1 from the beta packages page of Oracle website and installed it. However, while launching Virtual Machines created with Oracle VirtualBox 3.x (closed source...
View ArticleInstalling a Debian GNU/Linux test server with VirtualBox
VirtualBox OSE is a very easy-to-use virtualization tool. It has a GUI interface and installation wizards to help you through the process, so it really doesn’t feel like you’re doing anything as...
View ArticleThe Five Minute How To Install VirtualBox 4.1 Guide
Have you tried VirtualBox 4.1 yet? I hope it isn’t because the latest packaged version for your OS is 4.0.12 and you feel as if you’re stuck there. You’re not stuck there. This short tutorial will...
View ArticleInstalling Debian Linux on Oracle VirtualBox
A few months back, I posted an article about setting up a small home server. I’ve been playing around with the setup of that machine lately, and rather than breaking the working system, I’ve been...
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