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VirtualBox in general has been really fun and stable.  I did however have to watch out for some things.

• When upgrading VirtualBox, you should delete all snapshots and let them be integrated into your main image.
• Don't shutdown the VirtualBox guest by powering down or you may lose your OS.  Hope you made a snapshot

 

•  Installing VirtualBoxGuestAdditions:

  • Windows

    • Login to windows
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
  • Ubuntu
    • Login to ubuntu
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
    • Run these commands in a terminal:
      • cd /media/cdrom
      • sudo bash ./VBoxLinux*
  • Fedora
    • Login to Fedora
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
    • Run these commands:
      • cd /media
      • cd /VBOXADDITIONS_1.5.6_28297
      • sudo bash ./VBoxLinux* 

 

• Shared Folders
  • Guest Additions need to be installed
  • Setup the shared folders from the Device/Shared Folders menu
    • If you keep the default name, you will get an error message: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error
    • So if the share name was for example ReynoldTech, change it to ReynoldTechShare
    • Make a directory to mount this (as root)
      • mkdir /mnt/ReynoldTech
    • Run the command to mount the shared folder
      • mount -t vboxsf ReynoldTechShare /mnt/ReynoldTech

 

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What can I say about BlogEngine.NET?  I'm using it here and am very happy with it.

It works right out of the box just about if you want to make it your main website.  I had to do some tweaking to get it to work in a subdirectory of my website such as /blog.

Some minor bugs in the current version but plenty of themes.  It uses master pages as well as css so it's up to you if you want to copy/customize an existing theme.

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I've been playing around with VirtualBox for about 2 months now and it's one of the best OS virtualization solutions available.

I've been able to get away with running Ubuntu and Fedora using 256mb of ram and Windows 2003 server using 1gig.

Backups before major changes have been easy with the snapshot feature which also allows you to roll back to a previous snapshot if you totally mess it up. 

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