The way I like to develop is to create specific virtual machines for my web development. The chore is to start the machine, mount the file system and then open up your IDE. All a nuisance that takes time. So, I’ve taken to writing a simple Bash script that will do the grunt work for [...]

One of the thing that differs VirtualBox from Microsoft’s Virtual PC is that VB puts guest on a subnet of the computer that you are working on. This means that it cannot be directly accessed from other computers on your network. To enable access, you need to configure your computer to allow ports to be [...]

I had a little trouble running Ubuntu server on VirtualBox today. Thankfully the answer was easily found at Installing Ubuntu 8.04 server on VirtualBox « {S.A.Z.W.Q.A}. All you need to do to get Ubuntu server firing up is to open the settings screen for your virtual machine, and then tick the Enable PAE/NX box. Click [...]

After upgrading to Ibex, I found that I couldn’t sync my Palm with my Windows XP guest. After trudging through different websites with contradictory solutions I stumbled on this, which works a charm: Open the terminal and type vbox /etc/group You should end up with something like vboxusers:x:124:john Make a note of the group ID [...]

I was hopping around the Palm site looking for some Outlook 2007 conduits for my Tungsten T3 today. I realised that I haven’t actually synchronized my Palm in about a month! I was lucky to find Outlook 2007 Conduits on the Palm site, only after following a link within the Outlook 2003 conduits. Oddly, Palm [...]

After cursing Linux for not seeming to have a decent open source virtual machine platform, I’ve found out that an application called VirtualBox is now open source. Seeing as I’ve been quite comfortable using Virtual PC 2007 up to now, I thought that it would be nice to see if I can get Windows XP [...]