{"id":144,"date":"2008-11-01T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-11-01T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T22:48:10","slug":"virtualbox-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox Rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After discovering that my stack of intel-based 2U servers will not run VMWare, I&#8217;m going to revert to running VirtualBox on them. Either on a WindowsXP or Ubuntu host. Either way I want to be able to:<\/p>\n<p>Create a template VM with just WindowsXP on it<\/p>\n<p>Create a template VM with WindowsXP and XAMPP on it<\/p>\n<p>Start a specific VM on host OS boot<\/p>\n<p>Automate backups<\/p>\n<p>Transfer a VM to another machine (ie. bring a VM live on a second machine after the first one fails)<\/p>\n<p>Some ramblings here might be useful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derekhildreth.com\/blog\/how-to-properly-backup-a-virtualbox-machine-vdi\/\">www.derekhildreth.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s another project then&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discovering that my stack of intel-based 2U servers will not run VMWare, I&#8217;m going to revert to running VirtualBox &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=144\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,98,46],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}