Month: April 2010

Just a quick post following up on yesterday’s entry about creating a virtual machine in VirtualBox. One useful feature of a virtual machine host is being able to load and run virtual appliances. It is common for virtual appliances to only be available as a VMWare VMDK so it would be useful to know how… Continue reading Convert VMWare VMDK to VirtualBox VDI

I am running my virtual machine host on a headless Ubuntu server. This means that all of my interacting with VirtualBox is done through the command line over SSH. Here is the commands that I use to create a new virtual machine. These command examples are specific to VirtualBox 3.1 and later. Any bold text in… Continue reading Create a new VirtualBox from command line