[dba-Tech] FW: Your Blueprint: Optimizing Your Desktop Using VirtualBox

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 15:49:18 CDT 2009


Wow. Impressive. I am going to install VB this weekend.

Are there any special "precautions" I need take Arthur?

Max


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: 24 September 2009 21:28
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] FW: Your Blueprint: Optimizing Your Desktop Using
VirtualBox

I'm a big fan of VirtualBox. I run it on a AMD 64 with 4GB of RAM and
Windows Server 2008, and it flies. I have VMs devoted to Ubuntu, XP running
Ruby on Rails, and XP running Office 2007 and Office 2003. After installing
the Guest Additions, you get extra capabilities like the ability to resize
the VM screen so you can take advantage of a big monitor or even two of
them. Very nice! And a complete end to the conflicts I was having between
Office 2007 and 2003 side by side (repeatedly having them go into
installation mode after I switched between them, and also References to 11.0
vs. 12.0). All a thing of the past.
Arthur

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Max Wanadoo <max.wanadoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI
>
> VirtualBox is FREE.  Here is the PDF link.
>
> Max
>
>
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