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 [...]
Building an Ubuntu Dev Platform: Part 1 – VirtualBox
The 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) [...]
VirtualBox Folder Sharing
So 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 [...]
I Love VirtualBox
Sun’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 [...]