{"id":2874,"date":"2011-09-16T22:04:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2011-09-16T22:04:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:04:28","slug":"virtual-machine-software-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/virtual-machine-software-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Machine Software on the Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given how keen I am to try out the Windows 8 preview that I touched on in yesterday&#8217;s blog entry I had to find suitable and compatible virtual machine (or VM for short) as the platform for my testing. I didn&#8217;t want to go through the process of creating a new partition on my computer and installing Windows 8 (particularly with a university assignment in flight).<\/p>\n<p>So a VM was the way forward but which one?<\/p>\n<p>I already had Windows Virtual PC (which doesn&#8217;t play nice with Windows 8 as the guest OS) so after a bit of browsing I came across Oracle VM VirtualBox. You can <a title=\"Download VirtualBox | VirtualBox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">grab a copy here<\/a>. It&#8217;s also compatible with earlier versions of Windows as well as many flavours of Linux, Solaris, BSD, OS\/2 (if you are still into it) and Mac OS X Server (presumably only on Apple hardware but I&#8217;ll have to look into that).<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll take you through how to setup VirtualBox for the Windows 8 installation as there are a couple of tweaks you should look at implementing prior to kicking off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given how keen I am to try out the Windows 8 preview that I touched on in yesterday&#8217;s blog entry I had to find suitable and compatible virtual machine (or VM for short) as the platform for my testing. I didn&#8217;t want to go through the process of creating a new partition on my computer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/virtual-machine-software-on-the-cheap\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,267,348,152,151,18,1374],"tags":[1672,2302,1595,2246,1353,1673,1671,1668,1669,1670,2361],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-technology","category-linux","category-macos","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-8","tag-bsd","tag-linux","tag-mac-os-x","tag-microsoft","tag-oracle","tag-os2","tag-solaris","tag-virtual-machine","tag-virtualbox","tag-vm","tag-windows-8","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}