A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Virtual machines on linux

VirtualBox OSE
  • Free
  • Works
  • Have to shut VM down to change any settings
  • Command line access to read settings:
    • VBoxManage list vms
    • VBoxManage showvminfo [vm name]
  • Can use NAT and port forwarding to access locally when on wifi
  • Embiggening a disk is tedious
VMWare
  • Very big and heavy
  • Client is free
  • Software to create VMs is paid