Sun xVM VirtualBox saved my Windows box from ...

Sun xVm Virtualbox saved my Windows Box from my WIFE !!!

I have been a long time open source fan and have used VirtualBox for some time on my various linux distro's. ( Mandriva/Mandrake, RedHat Ent./CentOXS ) Once the best features was Seamless. Basically a transparent - to the user - virtual machine on your main desktop -> Super Sweet !!


My son had just gone to bed and my wife and I were sitting down to dinner. While inhaling dinner my wife casually mentions that she needs to do some work on my windows computer. AKA my main Gaming Rig... While normally I don't have a problem with her using my gaming rig she decides to mention that the software she needs to use has been giving her problems and she said it had gotten corrupted. Sweet I thought to myself, how am I going to fix this????

Since I am a UNIX guys, more importantly a Sun OS Unix guy I decided to solve this problem by installing Sun xVM Virtualbox for Mac. ( think I forgot to mention that we are a majority mac house hold with a windows gaming box and a Sun E250 as my play toy )


I downloaded the virtualbox-.dmg package from Sun's website which automatically mounted once the download was complete. I installed the VBox software, created a growing file system ( 2.9 gig with 800 megs ram) and selected windows 2k3 as my virtual OS. Loaded the OS, 40+ minutes later... Huston we have lift off !!

Now my wife is using her own Macbook with xVM VirtualBox to complete the work she needs inside of a 2K3 VM.

Sun xVM VirtualBox saved my Windows Gaming Rig !!

Thanks Sun !!