Archive for October 23rd, 2011
Increase hard drive size in VirtualBox
Running out of hard drive space on your virtual OS? Here’s how you can increase the size.
(VirtualBox Version 4+)
From the command line, you will need to navigate to the VirtualBox folder under program files. and type the following-
“VBoxManage.exe modifyhd “your.vdi” –resize 25000(new size in mb) Note: your.vdi may be Windows.vdi substitute the word your with the name of your vdi.
Example :-
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe modifyhd “C:\VM\Windows 7\Windows 7 .vdi” - -resize 25000
You should see a progress line-
0%…10%…20%…30%…40%…50%…60%…70%…80%…90%…100%
This will increase your hard drive by the size that you specify.
Run VirtualBox on a webserver as a cloud OS
Want to run VirtualBox on a webserver for training or need to run VirtualBox remotely on a webserver? Need VirtualOSs in the cloud?
Download PHPVirtualBox. Unzip the files into a folder in your webserver. Give permissions for web users. In IIS, right click the folder and give Network Services and the Users permission. You will also have to give your temp folder permissions. Rename the config.php-examp to config.php.
If you are running php on your webserver, you can enable the soap.dll in the php.ini file by removing the ; . Stop and Restart the webserver.
Make sure VirtualBox is installed and an operating system is installed. Open VirtualBox.
Open notepad and copy and paste the following into a blank workspace. Save the notepad file as virtualboxweb.bat on your desktop.
cd\ cd\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\ VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null vboxwebsrv.exe >null pause
Run the batch file.
On a client computer, navigate to http://yourwebaddress/yourfolder/index.htm
Login using admin as the username and password. Click on file. Change the login password. Click on file, log out and now re-log back in to test the password.
You can now run an OS in the cloud. PHPVirtualBox is an excellent program – information from their website follows-
An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. Much of its verbage and some of its code is based on the (inactive) vboxweb project. phpVirtualBox was designed to allow users to administer VirtualBox in a headless environment – mirroring the VirtualBox GUI through its web interface.
-phpVirtualBox:
- is designed to be a web interface replacement of the VirtualBox GUI program
- is not designed to run in a “hosting” environment where the concept of VM ownership is required – when you are logged in to phpVirtualBox, you have full control over all VMs in the VirtualBox installation
- aims to perform all VirtualBox administration actions through vboxwebsrv (a SOAP server distributed with VirtualBox)
- does not directly interact with any files on the VirtualBox host
- does not have automatic VM start / stop functionality on system boot / shutdown – this functionality is not provided by the VirtualBox API
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AMD Piledriver to Boost Performance by 10%, Feature New Instruction Set
Piledriver features an improved core design to bring about performance improvements of 10% over Bulldozer. It features two new instruction sets: FMA3 (Fast Memory Access 3) and Converged BMI (Branch if MInus). It will feature an improved IOMMU (memory mapping unit), referred to as IOMMU v2. Apart from these, Piledriver will fit into the existing ecosystem of AMD FX Processors, consisting of socket AM3+ and AMD 9-series chipsets. AMD is currently referring to the platform Piledriver-based processors will form around themselves as “FX Next”. There is no reason for you to skip Bulldozer for this, our sources told us that Piledriver CPUs can be expected only by mid-thru-late 2012. AMD FX Bulldozer processors are on course for a mid-October launch. via AMD Piledriver to Boost Performance by 10%, Feature New Instruction Set.
