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Articles for the keywords: VirtualBox
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25 Nov 2011
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Creating a Solaris 10 Branded Zone in Solaris 11 [24965]
A Speedy, Low-effort Procedure Jeff Savit Attests
Jeff Savit recounts his experience of building what he terms "a low effort way" to create a virtual Solaris 10 zone on Oracle Solaris 11. With the Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Solaris 10 Zones now available, Savit says, one can download a complete Solaris 10 install in a guest virtual machine that can run on any host OS that supports VirtualBox. Both sets of downloads (and he includes the link in his blog) provide a quick - and extremely easy way to set up a virtual Solaris 10 environment.
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21 Nov 2011
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Installing Oracle Solaris 11 in Oracle VM VirtualBox [24935]
Using Oracle Solaris 11 Image to Get Up and Running Quickly
In the first of a series of hands-on labs dealing with Oracle Solaris 11 readers will find the steps involved in using the Oracle Solaris 11 Image for Oracle VM VirtualBox to get up and running quickly with Oracle Solaris 11. The lab is divided into four exercises, as follows:
- Exercise 1: Download the Oracle Solaris 11 VM for Oracle VM VirtualBox
- Exercise 2: Import the Oracle Solaris 11 VM into VirtualBox
- Exercise 3: Start the Oracle Solaris 11 Express VM
- Exercise 4: Take a snapshot
Enjoy!
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21 Nov 2011
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Oracle VM VirtualBox Gains a Fan [24937]
Ginny Henningsen Is Won Over
Oracle VM VirtualBox has become the new favorite tool of Ginny Henningsen, who writes that, in testing database installation procedures, she discovered how simple it was to create multiple OS installation test cases as well as snapshot her progress at various points along the way. "Oracle VM VirtualBox turned my simple x86 system into a non-production sandbox, [and] ... taking Oracle VM VirtualBox snapshots along the way let me return to a known working operating system state," she writes. Oracle VM VirtualBox benefits system administrators familiar with one OS who are learning to perform tasks in another, new OS.
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