Just saw a great article today covering my favorite desktop hypervisor, VirtualBox: Running multiple operating systems side-by-side gives you the chance to test applications, run platform-specific software, and tons more without ever rebooting. It’s also extremely cool. Here’s how to run Windows, Mac, and Linux simultaneously and pain-free as possible. I’ve already extolled the virtues [...]
This post by Marcel van den Berg just saved my sanity today since I could not make heads or tails of what my beloved Platespin server was trying to tell me: Preparing <servername> (under PlateSpin control) For Synchronization No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:5036 Description: several one time synchronizations [...]
My favorite hypervisor just received some much-needed updates that really bring it into striking range of VMware’s Workstation or Parallels. Among the most notable additions to the best-priced (free!) product in desktop/workstation virtualization are: Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows guests RDP [...]