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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

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Published in Apr 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199140
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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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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, I showed you how to take real advantage of your virtual machines by means of the VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Specifically, we covered:

  • How to install the Guest Additions on Windows, Linux, and Solaris guests

  • How to alternate between the fullscreen and windowed modes in your virtual machines

  • How to share folders between your host PC and your virtual machines

  • How to use the seamless windows feature to run applications from your virtual machines side by side with applications from your host PC

  • How to activate hardware 3D acceleration in your virtual machines

  • How to use snapshots to revert your virtual machines to previous states so you can recover from application installation failures or other misfortunes

Now that we've covered how to use Guest Additions to maximize your virtual machine's potential, in the following chapter we'll see everything you need to know about virtual storage in VirtualBox...

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