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VirtualBox 3.1: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from VirtualBox 3.1: Beginner's Guide Deploy and manage a cost-effective virtual environment using VirtualBox

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781847199140

Length 348 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

VirtualBox

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Alfonso Vidal Romero

Alfonso Vidal Romero Elizondo

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

VirtualBox 3.1: Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

1. Getting to Work with VirtualBox FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Your First Virtual Machine: Ubuntu Linux

3. Creating Your Second Virtual Machine: Windows 7

4. Installing Guest Additions and Advanced Settings

5. Storing Data in VirtualBox

6. Networking with Virtual Machines

7. Using Virtual Appliances

8. Managing your Virtual Machines from a Remote Computer

Using Snapshots

Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how virtual appliances can help make your life easier when using virtual machines and VirtualBox.

Specifically, we covered:

What virtual appliances are, and how you can use them to reduce the installation, configuration, and maintenance times associated with creating virtual machines from scratch
How to run virtual appliances on VirtualBox
How to import and export virtual machines using the OVF standard
How to install and use virtual appliances from several providers such as VirtualBox® Images, BitNami, and Turnkey Linux

Now that you have a good grasp on virtual appliances and how to use them in your VirtualBox installation, let's go to Chapter 8 and find out about using remote virtual machines and alternative frontends for VirtualBox so that you can run headless virtual servers and run virtual machines from a remote PC.

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Authors (2)

Alfonso Vidal Romero Elizondo

Alfonso Vidal Romero Elizondo

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Alfonso Vidal Romero

Alfonso Vidal Romero

Alfonso Romero is a freelance computer consultant and translator from Mexico. He's been working with Linux and open source software since 1999. He started operating his first web server (Apache) from a PC at home, offering free hosting services to experiment with Postfix, Squirrel Mail, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, and Virtual Hosting. Since then, he's been working as a computer consultant for several clients in Mexico – writing Java, C++, and Web applications. Since 2000, he has worked for Pearson Education in Mexico as a computer books freelance translator and consultant. His latest book translations are the Spanish versions of Java How to Program, Seventh Edition, from Deitel & Deitel, and C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition, also from Deitel & Deitel. Al enjoys writing tutorials and teaching about Java, C++, PHP, the Apache Web server, Tomcat, MySQL, Web applications like Apache Roller, and all of the wonderful open source applications used today, and when he's not experimenting with new trends in Open Source applications, he enjoys playing his electric guitar.

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