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Run VirtualBox like any other software. It should be under Start > Sun xVM VirtualBox > VirtualBox
Start VirtualBox
This image on the left is the interface of VirtualBox. i have already a few guests OS installed. Your VM (virtual machine) is empty. To install our new linux system that we have just downloaded, we have to create a virtual machine for it.
Just click on the button New and we will start the process of creating a brand new virtual machine.
First step - Click Next
Always read the dialog boxes… yep… it’s a stupid comment but there are a lot of people that don’t do that.
Give a name to your VM
Give a name your VM. Name it according the OS you are about to install. This will make things easier later on when you have several Guests OS installed.
You have also to chose the type of OS to be installed. based on that choice , VirtualBox will pre-configure a few things for you. Click Next
Define the RAM to your VM
Decide the amount of RAM that your VM will have. Based on your previous choice VirtualBox recommends 256MB of memory. Click Next
Chose a virtual Hard Drive
Now it’s time to chose a virtual hard drive. You still don’t have any. Click New to create one.
New Virtual Disk Wizard
First step to create a new virtual hard drive. Click Next
Type of Virtual Hard Drive
Chose the type of virtual drive: Dynamic or Fixed.
Dynamic - VirtualBox will contract or expand the size of the files used as virtual drive as needed.
Fixed - VirtualBox will use always a file with the same size.
If in the future you install lots of software inside your VM and you reach the limit of the virtual drive, you can’t do anything about it.
With Dynamic drive you will not have that problem but if you chose a drive with 8GB and you don’t install any kind of software, you will have a few Gbytes of wasted space.
With time you’ll learn the best option. Click Next.
Define the size of VirtualHard drive
It’s time to decide the size of your virtual hard drive. Virtualbox recommends 8GB. If you have that space available accept that value. If not chose half of that value. Give a name to the file that will be saved on your computer as a virtual hard drive. To keep things organized give the same name that you have given to your VM on the beginning. Click Next.
Virtual Hard Drive created
Your new hard drive is created. Click Finish to complete the operation.
Chose the VM hard drive
We’re back to step 5. Chose your recently created hard drive as the hard disk of your virtual machine. Click Next.
Final step - VM is finished
Your new virtual machine is concluded. Click Finish.
On the next post we will be ajusting our new virtual machine.
Have you ever wondered about having two Operative Systems installed on your PC running simultaneously? It’s extremely easy to do and very handy.In this illustrated tutorial I am gonna show how to install Linux Sabayon inside Windows Vista Home Basic.
Linux Sabayon is a flavor of linux based on the Gentoo distribution. It’s an amazing distribution and the GUI is awesome. Just to give you a taste of it look at this image and video.
Linux Sabayon running inside Windows Vista
Video showing Linux Sabayon running
Before the advent of virtual machines software, we had only one possibility: dual boot systems. Dual Boot has some advantages but has the inconvenient of while you are running one system, the other is off. Virtual machines solved that problem. With them you can have your main system running and install other Operative Systems inside virtual machines. This allows you to run and test a big variety of systems without messing with partitions.
How about the new shareware just downloaded from the Internet? You could install the old Windows 98 or Windows 2000 in a virtual machine and then test the shareware without jeopardizing your main system. The possibilities are endless.
Install VirtualBox
Just a few notes:
My computer is a Dell computer with 2GB of RAM and Windows Vista Home Basic installed. This is the HOST
OS.After the installation of VirtualBox, each operative system that you install inside it, they will the GUEST OS.
Go to VirtualBox website and download the software. Inside the download section you will find several versions. Download the appropriated version for you. For me was the x86 version.
Install it like you install any other software.
Download Linux Sabayon
The first thing that you have to do is to download the Linux Sabayon distribution. Go to the Sabayon website.
Sabayon website
Chose Download bellow Enjoy Sabayon
Go to one of the mirrors to chose one version of Sabayon. I have used an mirror from Denmark. Chose this file: SabayonLinux-x86-3.4.miniEdition.iso and start your download.
Chose download mirror
Chose file to download
Chose Save File
locate a place to save the file
Start the download
If you are a smoker, lit a cigarette… it Will take a while to download the file.
Come back soon for part II of this tutorial on How to install linux sabayon inside windows Vista.
If you press F2 when more than one file is selected in Windows Explorer,
only one file—the active file—gets a text field for you to type in. Nothing
will happen to the other selected files, at least not yet.
The active file is important, since its name is used as a template to rename
the other selected files. If the file marked as active is not the one you want to
use, hit Esc, and then hold the Ctrl key while clicking another file. If the
new file was highlighted, it will become deselected—in this case, just Ctrlclick
the file once more to reselect it. Then, press F2 again to show the text
field.
Rename the active file as desired, and press Enter when you’re done. The
active file keeps its new name, and then Explorer assigns the same name—
plus a number, in parenthesis—to all the other files.
Electronic mail hardly requires an introduction. Communications made
through the original forms of e-mail helped shape the Internet.
Widespread availability of access to e-mail and modern enhancements
such as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, which allow for
inclusion of attachments and alternate message formats) have helped to
make e-mail the most popular application on the Internet.
With a Linux system and a suitable Internet connection, you can easily set
up your own mail server for personal or business use. This chapter includes
a description of how Internet mail works at the protocol level, and then
guides you through the process of setting up a mail server, complete with
spam and virus filtering. In the final section, you learn how to secure network
communications between clients and your mail server through the use
of SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security) protocols.
The examples in this chapter are based on a Debian GNU/Linux system. (See
Chapter 9 for more information about Debian.) However, much of the
knowledge you gain from setting up a mail server in Debian applies to other
Linux systems as well. [More]
Edit or create a startup menu that lets you choose which operating system to boot into in multiboot systems, or create a menu that lets you choose different startup options for your single operating system if you have only XP installed.
If you’ve installed another operating system (in addition to XP) on your system, your PC starts up with a multiboot menu, which allows you to choose which operating system you want to run. The menu stays live for 30 seconds, and a screen countdown tells you how long you have to make a choice from the menu. After the 30 seconds elapse, it boots into your default operating system, which is generally the last operating system you installed.
You can customize that multiboot menu and how your PC starts by editing the boot.ini file, a hidden system file, to control a variety of startup options, including how long to display the menu, which operating system should be the default, whether to use the XP splash screen when XP starts, and similar features. And as you’ll see later in this hack, you can also use the file to create a startup menu that will allow you to choose from different versions of your operating system—for example, one that you’ll use for tracking down startup problems, and another for starting in Safe Mode.
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