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Build your own virtual environment from scratch using VirtualBox
Overview
- Learn how to install, configure, and manage VirtualBox
- A step-by-step guide which will teach you how to build your own virtual environment from scratch
- Discover advanced features of VirtualBox
In Detail
Oracle VM VirtualBox is an open source, cross-platform virtualization software package. Desktop virtualization software gives you the ability to install and run multiple operating systems on your computer in a virtual environment without disturbing the host OS. VirtualBox helps you create a completely isolated virtual environment and therefore prevents viruses, malware, or any other kinds of threats spreading from the guest-to-host machine.
Getting Started with Oracle VM VirtualBox is a step-by-step guide designed to help you understand the concepts of virtualization and start running VirtualBox on your system. This book will show you how to install, configure, and manage VirtualBox. It will also show you how to install Oracle Enterprise Linux as a guest VM and make use of the essential features of VirtualBox.
This book will show you how to install and configure VirtualBox on your desktop. You will then learn how to create a guest machine as well as features like starting, stopping, removal, and cloning of the guest machine. This book will also introduce you to some advanced features like snapshot, Clone, and VM Groups.
You will then discover how you can install Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.0 as a guest OS and also how to share a folder both in Windows and Linux operating systems. You will then learn about the different networking options available on VirtualBox and discover how they work. Finally, this book will introduce you to the different virtual storage options available in VirtualBox and show you how they work.
What you will learn from this book
- Install VirtualBox on your desktop and create a guest virtual machine
- Discover advanced features like snapshot, Clone, and VM Groups
- Install Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.0 as a guest OS
- Explore the different networking and storage options available in VirtualBox
- Discover the memory management techniques available in VirtualBox
Approach
A step-by-step guide that will show you how to install, configure, and manage VirtualBox.
Who this book is written for
This book is for system administrators, technical architects, and virtualization enthusiasts who want to learn how to set up a virtual machine. Knowledge of the Linux environment is expected. Prior experience with VirtualBox or knowledge of virtualization is not required.
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Pradyumna Dash has been in IT for more than 10 years. He has a Bachelor's degree in IT and Management and holds a number of certifications from vendors such as RedHat, Oracle, SNIA, EXIN, OpenGroup, IBM, Rackspace, AWS, and many more. Currently, he works as a solution architect for a consulting organization in a team specializing in free and open source solutions, virtualization, cloud computing, infrastructure consulting, infrastructure architecture and design, and developing solutions for large data centers. He has been working with Linux since 1998 and is an open source fanatic, and has extensive knowledge on open source virtualization solutions and cloud technologies.
Linux and knowledge sharing are two of his many passions.
He has also published multiple articles for Asia's biggest Linux magazine and is an active member in multiple Linux user groups and communities across the globe.
I would like to dedicate this book to my wife Nilanjana, my family, and my friends for their constant encouragement and, support, and for having the patience with me as I undertook another large project such as writing this book, which decreases the amount of time I spend with them. Speaking about encouragement, I must mention my teammate and manager, who constantly pushed and motivated me to do something beyond my day-to-day work.
Pranav Salunke works on OpenStack, especially with the OpenStack training project, and loves to work on open source projects. Currently employed by Aptira as a Cloud Engineer, he is working on various cloud computing and related technologies.
He is a top-notch Shell coder (one of the 46 percent most active Shell users) who loves pushing code. He is a full-time hacker who has contributed to various projects and repositories in eight languages. In particular, he is a pretty serious Shell expert with a surprisingly broad knowledge of Python as well. He has contributed to repositories mainly written in Shell, Python, Java, JavaScript, and Perl. For the latest information on his hacker profile, follow him at http://osrc.dfm.io/dguitarbite.
I would like to acknowledge Delilah for her support and positive attitude towards life.
Martin Toshev is a software engineer by profession and hobby. He has been working on a number of large enterprise projects for different companies for the last five years using mostly the Java technology stack. His has experience in the areas of social networking and J2EE middleware and has been an active user of different types of hypervisors, among which is VirtualBox.
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Oracle VM VirtualBox is an open source, cross-platform virtualization software package for x86 and AMD64- or Intel 64-based computers from Oracle Corporation. It was developed by innotek GmbH and then taken over by Sun Microsystems in the year 2008. Now developed by Oracle, this product was formerly known as Sun VirtualBox. This book is specially designed to quickly help you get up to speed with VirtualBox and give you confidence and an understanding of virtualization. It covers a wide range of topics that will help you install, configure, and manage VirtualBox. It will also help in installing Oracle Enterprise Linux as a guest VM with a lot of advanced features of VirtualBox.
This book gives you clear step-by-step instructions to install and use VirtualBox on your Fedora desktop. These are also applicable for Red Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Enterprise Linux. It will also instruct you on how to run your guest VM on top of VirtualBox. This book is full of concepts and practical examples, and lists advanced features of VirtualBox that enable you to use it in a very simple way.
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