Working with virtual appliances
In the previous section, you learned how to import/export virtual appliances to your host PC running VirtualBox. In this section, I'll show you how to work with virtual appliances from three very popular sources: VirtualBox® Images, BitNami, and Turnkey Linux.
Before we roll up our sleeves, I'd like to say something about virtual appliances. Sometimes a virtual appliance can consist of an operating system ready to run, like the PuppyLinux virtual appliance we'll see next, and sometimes a virtual appliance can consist of an operating system and several open source software applications like the BitNami Drupal and the Turnkey Linux File Server virtual appliances we'll see later.
What I want you to understand is that a virtual appliance is meant to ease up the task of using an operating system or software application; for example, the PuppyLinux virtual appliance you're about to see lets you run the PuppyLinux operating system in just a few minutes, without your...
