Any Virtualbox users here?

[TheMisterExplorer]

I do use VM sometimes. It's useful if you don't have another pc to test the things on for example the last thing i test is if nodejs work just with the .exe file, and the answer is yes

 

[dmull]

Any Virtualbox users here? I created my first virtualbox on a "cheap" new laptop of mine as a precusor fo working with Linux over the holidays. It was almost too easy to install. For every question I had so far all I had to do was fire up a question in Google, and then realized there are a large number of Virtualbox users out there.

This tutorial was specifically very useful in setting Virtualbox up:
http://teaching.idallen.com/cst8207/14f/notes/000_centos_virtualbox_install.html

This tutorial provided plenty of insights, particularly after my first attempt at loading CentOS 7.0 to my Virtualbox failed:

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The Virtualbox is teaching me a little more about the new laptop I have. For example, when I was trying to download a CentOS 7.0 ISO image, it wouldn't allow me to do it. The "cheap" laptop is 64-bit, but then discovered that one has to get stuck into the Bios to enable the 64-bit capability. That added a new challenge as to how to get into the Lenovo BIOS as the way it has been set up to boot up fast, means that one can't log out properly enough for F1 or F12 to work. Then after firing off some new questions in my Google search box, discovered my Lenovo G50 Laptop has a little secret button that works with a pencil tip. One has to poke it while the laptop is turned off, and it will then get the BIOS up. Neat! Then finally was able to enable the 64-bit and that worked. Next stage tomorrow is to hopefully finally be able to install CentOS 7.0 image.

Anyone else using Virtualbox, and what have your experiences been like? I'm thinking of creating more partitions, like I can definitely visualize at least one for Windows XP. The bigger one for Linux.

I would also go into your bios and make sure that Virtualization is turned on. You would be amazed how more smoother things run!

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I also have a Hyper-V Core as well as an ESXI server running for testing vms out. They all work great and cost me $0 other than the hardware.

 

[yuninho2005]

Hello. I use VirtualBox in a daily basis. I read once in a book called "The productive programmer" or something like that, that is an advantage to have a Virtual Machine for every different development environment. For example if you work with PHP, Mysql and Apache you must have one VM with only that installed. If you work with Java, Postgres and Tomcat another for that environment and so on. That allows you no to have your machine's OS loaded with so many different programs. You have to use more storage space but you gain in organization and is easier to have more storage space than to have more CPU.

I hope this is useful.

 

[dmull]

Hello. I use VirtualBox in a daily basis. I read once in a book called "The productive programmer" or something like that, that is an advantage to have a Virtual Machine for every different development environment. For example if you work with PHP, Mysql and Apache you must have one VM with only that installed. If you work with Java, Postgres and Tomcat another for that environment and so on. That allows you no to have your machine's OS loaded with so many different programs. You have to use more storage space but you gain in organization and is easier to have more storage space than to have more CPU.

I hope this is useful.

I see exactly where you are going with this. Another thing to point out is that some packages may include overhead from another package. Having the VM separated like @"yuninho2005" mentioned, would get rid of this.

 

[yuninho2005]

Is worth to mention that one can copy the VM hard drive to a USB and use it in different places. The only requirement is to have VBox installed. We have to be careful with the drivers in the case of Windows or if there is a significant difference with the architecture of the computers.

 

[BlackRat]

I very like VirtualBox it's just good piece of software but I preffered VMWare Workstation or Player. If you learn Puppet or Vagrant.... you can automate A LOT of repetitive activities/task like a Installing Operating Systems apps in ready VM etc.

I think virtualbox have one con for me: Don't have built-in web interface or something to controll and manage VM from other location... Ok methods leading to this exist but still it's not simple like ex. VMWare Workstation:
Copy and insert to shared and from other computer Connect to the Remote Server and it's work.

But I think Virtualbox is the best option to discover the magic world of virtualization... Of course in my opinion

 

[hurakura]

I use Virtualbox when i want to play some android games on the PC. I use ISO of the 64bit version of the Android-x86 project. It's port of android to x86 cpu's. It works very smooth even on lower spec PC.
Games run better and faster that on Android Emulators.

 

[sxiii]

That's funny now I'm on Lenovo laptop too, and I did spent some time to find 1) about this button and then 2) where this button is (answer: sometimes, on the left side, sometimes, near the power button). Some time ago when I tested Virtualbox I had some problems too, mostly with missing kernel KVM module for the virtualization to work (solution: install it & relogin / reboot).

 

[travismailsa]

Totally recommend VMware over virtualbox, another awesome thing to test/play around with is esxi - linux based VM manager with web interface.

Need further assistance give me a shot

 

[amontes]

I like Virtualbox because it has a "headless" mode. It also hasa command line interface wich can be automated. It also saves snapshots very fast.

What I dont like about it is how easy is to destroy a VM by tampering in its XML.

 

[SoundsGood]

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[kezimo]

Good for the most part, other than a few incompatibilities with its emulated CPU architecture not supporting some encryption stuff.

 

[hunky]

I am also a Virtual Box user for long time.

Mainly I use it for web development.

Simple CentOS installation & then a LAMP stack to start developing, trying out different things before finally implementing that in my live website.

Its free & its really useful.

Thanks.

 

[Bripaticus]

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[dels]

I think for learning, development and experimentation VirtualBox is a great product, and in my experience it has a much better compatibility with OVA appliances than VMWare.
However, if you've going down the serving / hosting route, then'll you'll probably end up using VMWares ESXi server so it may pay to stick with VMPlayer or VMWorkstation.