If you need to access VirtualBox shared folders from a Windows Server 2008 guest OS, do not use the Network entry in Windows Explorer to map a network drive, since you will not be able to view the share. The easiest way is to load the command line in Windows Server 2008, and assuming your …
If you need to create a new copy of a VirtualBox machine, i.e. clone the machine, do not copy the vdi files directly. If you do so, when you try to add the hard disk using the Virtual Media Manager you will get an error that an existing hard disk is already mounted. VirtualBox stores …
My main development machine was running on top of Windows Vista since it was pre-installed. When I bought the machine, I had neither time or willingness to switch OS. To cut a long story short, Vista was really limiting the potential of my machine since out of the box it sucked up roughly 750MB of …