Tag Archives: Virtualization

Expanding HardDisk of VirtualBox Guest

VirtualBox is a beautiful piece of virtualisation software created for users, first acquired by Sun and then by Oracle as a part of Sun acquisition. I have been using VirtualBox for quite a few testing projects, however until today have … Continue reading

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Adding/Removing the Resources from a Running Solaris Zone

The zonecfg command is used to configure the zone. We can add and remove a resource from the solaris zone using zonecfg. Any change to zonecfg needs a reboot, but sometimes it is a requirement to dynamically add new resources … Continue reading

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Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU

Create a disk image of desired size. I chose 50 MB $ dd if=/dev/zero of=msdos622.img bs=1k count=0 seek=50000 Next boot from the DOS boot media. I had a bootable CD image. $ qemu -hda msdos622.img -cdrom DOS6.22_bootdisk.iso -boot d From … Continue reading

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Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU

Being an old DOS user, sometimes there is an urge to go back to college days and recall how we used to do various things in DOS. Using dbase III, in a DOS environment reminds me of some of the … Continue reading

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Solaris10 on VirtualBox

I installed Solaris10 11/06 on VirtualBox 1.5.6 OSE. The first problem immediately after installation I faced was that of mouse not being captured by virtual machine. So I open a terminal window and start the vold and then ran the … Continue reading

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