VirtualBox
How to install a Windows XP virtual machine using a SATA controller in Virtual Box
Roberto Bifulco — Sat, 06/18/2011 - 15:23
SATA controllers show better performance in comparison to the IDE ones, even in emulated environment like the Virtual Box's one. To create a VirtualBox virtual machine that uses an emulated SATA controller you can just specify the controller type in the virtual machine description, enable ACPI and IOAPIC, and all should work!
How to make VirtualBox's VM screen resolution independent from the host machine resolution
Roberto Bifulco — Wed, 03/30/2011 - 23:21
Some months ago I was playing around with ORACLE Virtual Box for one of my works. The work was a server installation for a first virtualization evaluation: the interested company decided to try virtualization in an unobtrusive way, starting smoothly, using an existing os installation.
Mounting a shared folder between host and guest machine in VirtualBox (for Linux)
Roberto Bifulco — Thu, 02/03/2011 - 21:49
Oracle VirtualBox exposes an interesting feature to share a folder between the host and the guest machine.
To mount a shared folder from the guest command line just follow these steps (We assume that the shell is in the root [ / ] directory and that the name of the host's shared directory is "Downloads"):
