Using Shared Folder in a RedHat Guest VM on VirtualBox

Posted: February 24th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: mobile, virtualization | No Comments »

Sharing folder between guest OS and the host OS is very easy in VMware. But in VirtualBox, I have to run the mount command ..

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Fix Network Card Undetected Problem in Cloned Virtual Machine

Posted: February 23rd, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: virtualization | No Comments »

I ran into this problem at work. When cloning a RedHat Linux VM and imported to a different host (thus, likely different hardware). This helpful

VMware KB entry helped big time!

Import ESXi VM to VirtualBox via OVF

Posted: February 22nd, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: virtualization | No Comments »

VMware ESXi is an operating system-independent hypervisor based on the VMkernel operating system interfacing with agents that run atop it.

At work, we use VMware ESXi to host the VMs but I run VirtualBox on my development machine. Luckily, fine folks at Oracle thought of this and make it quite easy.

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30-minutes experiment with Node.js

Posted: November 28th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: learning, web | No Comments »

I’ve read about Node.js and finally had a chance to test it out. After 30 minutes, I found it easy to use and very powerful, and would definitely explore some more in the future. This blog documents my short experiment with Node.js

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