virtual environment

Our setup is a Debian guest with VirtualBox on an Ubuntu host, but the two basic steps look like they are the same on any combination.

Shut down all virtual machines and close VirtualBox first.

To the main VirtualBox configuration file — ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml — and to the specific virtual machine's configuration file — something like ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/somename_default_1415392315537_7406/somename_default_1415392315537_7406.vbox — add the following, identical line into the existing <ExtraData> sections:

Hi, Romy here, making my first post to Open Data, sharing snippets of resources and information I come across as I venture into the fascinating world that is command line.

This was shared to me via IRC by Sam Kottler, whom you should google and be jealous.

Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for rapidly building and distributing virtualized development environments.

http://vagrantup.com/