Welcome to part 2 in a series of articles on building, using Sun’s VirtualBox, a basic Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine (VM) for the development of PHP and Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. However, we aren’t quite there yet. In this step, we are installing Ubuntu Linux (9.10) on the blank Virtual Machine we created in part 1.
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The Ubuntu Dev Platform: Part 2 – Install Ubuntu
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Building an Ubuntu Dev Platform: Part 1 – VirtualBox
Saturday, February 27th, 2010The goal of this article is to build, using Sun’s VirtualBox, a basic Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine (VM) for the development of PHP and Ruby on Rails (RoR) applications. We will be relying on the nginx web server, MySQL database engine, and Phusion Passenger (along with their Ruby Enterprise Edition) in order to keep the development platform consistent with my particular production environment.
VirtualBox Folder Sharing
Monday, January 11th, 2010So you read about how much I love VirtualBox and you decided to give it a go. You downloaded and installed VirtualBox (3.1.2 at time of writing) on your Windows computer. Then you grabbed the latest .ISO of Ubuntu Linux (9.10) and walked through VirtualBox’s New Virtual Machine Wizard to create your very first virtual appliance. Or maybe you went the other route and started off with a Linux machine and created a Windows-based virtual appliance.
Either way, now you want to swap files between the two of them.
I Love VirtualBox
Monday, January 11th, 2010Sun’s VirtualBox is a tool I’ve come to rely on for virtualization, and I seriously rely on virtualization. What is virtualization and why do I rely on it so much? Virtualization, in the most basic possible sense of the not-really-a-word, is a method of running one or more operating systems inside another wholly separate operating system. I rely on it so much, because honestly, I have multiple geek personalities to deal with. One of me has a long history of geeking out to windows tech and is an avid gamer so it is essential to my computing well-being that I keep a decent Windows-based PC around. Yet, another me has hefty development interests Linux and Open-source technologies. I don’t see that changing anytime soon, and I have a lot of work ahead of me to bring those skills on par with my lengthy experience in Microsoft technology. Furthermore, I’m certain there are me’s out there that I haven’t even met yet.