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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
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ISBN-13 9781847199140
Length 348 pages
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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

Configuring basic settings for your Ubuntu Linux VM

All right, you created your Ubuntu virtual machine and downloaded a copy of Ubuntu Desktop Live CD. Can you start installing Ubuntu now? I know you'll hate me, but nope, you can't. We need to tell your virtual machine where to boot the Live CD from, as if we were using a real PC. Follow me, and I'll show you the basic configuration settings for your VM, so you can start the Ubuntu installation ASAP!

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