VirtualBox and PCLinuxOS 2007
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007I’ve been using Microsoft Virtual PC for years and love it, but there’s a new kid on the virtualization block that’s caught my eye; VirtualBox. To be fair, I haven’t tried the new Virtual PC 2007 just recently RTM‘d, but from what I’ve heard the new features aren’t all that revolutionary. I should also point out that I’ve never been a fan of VMWare, finding it a little bloated and (despite the marketing) doesn’t seem to perform as fast as other offerings. On the other hand, I’ve found VirtualBox to be easy to use, it has good support for guest OS’s (in our case Linux) and by my account, performs very well.
I’m not an avid Linux user (in fact, I’m quite a novice), but I occasionally get enough curiosity to try out a distribution. This time around, it was reading about PCLinuxOS 2007 that got me interested. I decided to give it a try using VirtualBox and much to my delight I had it up and running well in less than 30 minutes. If you’re also curious about Linux, trying it on a virtual machine is an easy way to get a little exposure. I thought my experience may be helpful to others, so here’s what I did to get it working: