In the previous post of this series we installed and set up VirtualBox. We prepared it for a default install of CentOS 5.2. This time, we cover the installation of the OS itself. Changes since the last article are an upgrade from v2.0 to v2.1, and the fact that I’m running VirtualBox on my Asus eee under eeebuntu now. The great thing is that VirtualBox is cross-platform, so it runs perfectly fine and acts almost exactly the same. Now, let’s get started! (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘testing environment’
Testing environment: Installing CentOS 5.2 on VirtualBox
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Testing environment: Setting up VirtualBox for easy VM usage
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
One of the first things we had to do here at OlinData is set up a testing environment. Many customers have many different OS environments and we want to be able to accomodate all of them. With the setup described here, we will be able to easily set up many different OS’s, regardless of the operating system we use in our every day work and without having to own a gazillion different computers that are hardly ever used.