{<1>} I've just done the upgrade to Mavericks on my work machine. All went pretty well but there were a couple of hitches. Both Python and Virtualbox had some issues. Fixing Python Fortunately my dev env are all safely tucked away inside an Ubuntu VM however the Python…
In a previous post I wrote about using a TAP interface to be able to SSH into linux guests from the host. Since then changes in the newer versions of VirtualBox have seen the addition of a virtual interface on the Host by default. This post details how to utilise…
If when cloning VirtualBox VMs you get an error like this: $ VBoxManage clonehd WinXP-IE7.vdi WinXP-IE8.vdi VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. ERROR: Cannot register the hard disk '/home/scol/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXP-IE7.vdi' with UUID {3858b1b1-c306-4505-8264-235af812f337}…
I use the excellent VirtualBox on Ubuntu but I had a specific Debian dev environment VM that I'd previously run under VMware Fusion on my work mac when it used to have OSX on it ;-). The current versions of VirtualBox (2.2.4 in my case) support running vmdk…
Note: I'm using VirtualBox 2.1.4 PUEL edition. With other versions YMMV. See comments for more info. Note: If you're using VBox 3.x then Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests is more up to date. On Ubuntu I've been using VirtualBox as the solution for cross-browser testing…