Comments on: Try Out a New Operating System the Easy Way with VirtualBox

By: x@x.org

x@x.org — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:03:42 +0000

@Angel,

feature an article on seamless virtualization with VirtualBox.

By: EdoDodo

EdoDodo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:56:51 +0000

Great guide, personally I already knew how to do this but nonetheless an interesting article.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:45:30 +0000

Brilliant, thank you.

Will try them both tonight.

By: Asian Angel

Asian Angel — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:57:59 +0000

@Alex – Here is the link for the Moon OS homepage. ^__^

http://www.moonos.co.cc/

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:25:29 +0000

Virtual Box is an awesome software. Good competitor to the VMWare Workstation.
I use this to test them out before installing them to a hard drive. Although sometimes you won’t get the exact same speed when you’re running in on a real install than when you run it in a virtual machine.

By: Vitor

Vitor — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:34:40 +0000

This software is awesome! Getting better and better each release

By: bassmadrigal

bassmadrigal — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:37:28 +0000

One reason on why the Moon OS will not do a larger resolution is probably due to you not installing the Guest Additions (which is probably impossible due to it being a live distro). This will provide you with additional drivers/modules and programs. One such driver is the xorg video driver, which will allow you to use higher resolutions. Also with more recent versions of Virtual Box they are also supporting 3D acceleration depending on the version of your xserver (needs to be 1.6 or higher).

Another feature of Guest Additions is the shared clipboard. This will allow you to copy stuff from the host and past it into the guest or vice versa. The Guest Additions also provides time sync with the host, so both clocks show the same time.

Guest Additions for linux can be installed by selecting Devices -> Install Guest Additions. This will add the image as /dev/hdc and depending on the distro may auto-mount it. Once it is mounted go into it and run the linux installer (through the shell). Then reboot and it is done.

One last great feature to mention with the Guest Additions, is once in the GUI you no longer have to use the Right Ctrl to release the mouse. The mouse will move in and out of the window just like any other window on your desktop.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:07:12 +0000

Nice guide thanks, will try that instead of VM-Ware this evening.

Just out of interest, where can I get that Linux Distro? Looks funky.

I have searched fro Linux Moon before you LMGTFY me!!