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VeeDee-Eyes Offers Pre-Configured Linux Distros for VirtualBox
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 7:00 AM on July 20, 2008
If you've been checking out the newest VirtualBox beta for Mac OS X, or you're intrigued by Linux but not ready to deal with virtualizing it, the Sun xVM VirtualBox VDI Index—or, as it's skeevily nicknamed, veeDee-Eyes—has a host of pre-compiled, pre-configured images for you. No need to set up space, "boot" from a live CD and mess around with hardware config, as copies of Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and others are ready to run. Not all of them are free, with a few of the multi-GB distros asking for a buck or two to cover server costs, but a good number of interesting variants and betas are there for the taking. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and is a free download.
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Phoshi
Posted 7:11 AM 20/7/08
Neat, I'll have to try them.
Phoshi
Scott Wegner
Posted 7:50 AM 20/7/08
Very cool. The latest version of Hardy Intrepid (alpha 2 as a write this) has some problems with VirtualBox. I've gotten it to boot using the "VT-x/AMD-V" option, although I still have trouble with the guest additions. I'm stuck in low-resolution, making it a bit of a pain to test.
Scott Wegner
cbiggins
Posted 10:40 AM 20/7/08
Great idea. Will have to give them a go.
cbiggins
tinkernut
Posted 2:22 PM 20/7/08
Looks like an excellent way to try Linux before making a switch. But to be honest, I'm so sick of Windows right now, I think the difficulty of Linux may be a lesser headache.
tinkernut
caschy
Posted 6:34 PM 20/7/08
This site totally sucks! You can't find downloadlinks for VDIs - or am i blind? They host nothing - only links to torrents. Thats bad.
caschy
SEEN
Posted 11:46 PM 20/7/08
@caschy: Yes you are blind, the torrents are the VDIs! And how are torrents bad? They're only illegal if you use them to download illegal content.
SEEN
caschy
Posted 1:22 AM 21/7/08
Seen, i know that the torrents a vdis - but "i" prefer direct downloads without torrents. imho.
caschy
revolution-inc
Posted 4:54 AM 21/7/08
@caschy: yh i prefer direct downloads but torrents are designed so you can continuously download with breaks whereas direct downloading could break down and you would have to send the whole file again
revolution-inc
yohanes
Posted 1:22 PM 21/7/08
Who are these guys providing this? How can we be sure that there are no trojans/backdoors planted in the VDIs?
yohanes
portobello_man
Posted 12:54 AM 22/7/08
I was pretty excited about this until I saw it was just links to torrents... :-(
portobello_man
Andybaby
Posted 7:39 AM 20/7/08
thanks for the reminder of virtualbox, i heard about it before, but never got a chance to install it.
i already have a bunch of linux distros downloaded, but i dont want to restart my computer to mess with them all, this helps.
Andybaby