To install the virtualbox extension pack on a headless machine, I needed to run the virtualbox gui app as root via sudo. This did not pass authentication through and X11 failed. Solution was found at the link below. X11 connection… Read More
Mounting Virtualbox VDI in linux
Needed to mount a VDI. Using manually installed Vbox from Oracle site, which has nasty conflict with packages for Mint, so couldn’t easily get fuse installed. Solved by using qemu as per these instructions.
Suspending VMWare Player over SSH
I have quite a large array of virtual machines that I use for a variety of purposes. From hosting development versions of my websites, to SVN, to Windows XP machines I can quickly VNC onto to test my stylesheets on Internet… Read More