Articles tagged with virtualbox

1. OS X CLI: Install VirtualBox

   Posted on April 29, 2013 in System Administration

   I decided the other night to begin doing some testing using my headless Mac Mini. I use VirtualBox for all my testing on my Mac OS X systems. Since the Mini is headless, I decided now was as a good a time as any to start using VirtualBox via the …

2. VirtualBox Receives Another Incremental Update

   Posted on March 25, 2010 in Software

   After all this time, I still love VirtualBox, the open source hypervisor from Sun (now Oracle). I use it almost everyday on my iMac to either test something in Windows XP or see what's going on in some version of Linux. It's been almost a year since the release of …

3. VirtualBox 3 Keeps Getting Better

   Posted on November 20, 2009 in Software

   If you're like me, you abandoned non-free virtualization options in favor of VirtualBox. I use VirtuaBox every day on my iMac in order to perform Windows or Linux specific tasks. Since Sun released VirtualBox 3 this summer, they continued to improve the product. Check out the ChangeLog to see what …

4. VirtualBox 3 is ready

   Posted on July 22, 2009 in Software

   I use VirtualBox to run a Microsoft Windows guest on my iMac. For some reason, VirtualBox did not notify me that version 3.0 had been released. This new version includes symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for guest systems, Direct3D 8 and 9 for Windows guests, and OpenGL support for Windows, Linux …