(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose
apt-get install rubygems
gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty) laptop.
Well it's not. after that I was greeted...
0 replies - 2247 views - 01/01/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles
I have had most of my test environment, aka
puppetmasters, test mysql setups etc running in KVM for the past couple
of years .. (yes I`m still using a lot of Xen in production
environments, but we've also been using KVM for a while already ..
1 replies - 2895 views - 11/30/11 by Kris Buytaert in Articles
I make it no secret. I simply love vagrant. Why?
0 replies - 4757 views - 09/14/11 by Patrick Debois in News
I’ve written about Vagrant previously and the more I use it the more it impresses me and the more it changes how I work. For those that haven’t yet used vagrant
the brief summary is, it’s a way of managing, creating and destroying
headless virtualbox...
1 replies - 4447 views - 07/06/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News
We distribute vagrantbox to people demo-ing our project. It is a hassle to install the whole setup for non-IT people
The following is a proof of concept to make a self installing vagrant machine.
To create the box you need:
jruby installed
To run the box:
0 replies - 5071 views - 06/20/11 by Patrick Debois in News
Now that we have Vagrant up and running with our favorite
Config Management, let's see how we can integrate testing into our
workflow.
Given our awesome project from my 'Using Vagrant as a Team' post we have the following components:
0 replies - 5833 views - 06/03/11 by Patrick Debois in News
On a recent project we explored how to further integrate puppet and Vsphere to get EC2 like provisioning, all command-line based.
0 replies - 5705 views - 05/29/11 by Patrick Debois in News
This blogpost goes into detail how on we leverage Vagrant, an open source tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments,
in our day to day work. We use it with a team of 7 people to integrate a
pretty complex application. To get...
0 replies - 8076 views - 05/25/11 by Patrick Debois in News
As a result of Oracle's strategy to merge HotSpot and JRockit into a single best-of-breed JVM, JRockit is now free for development and internal production use on general purpose computers. Use in external production and other non-general computers is...
0 replies - 19008 views - 05/18/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
This post sums up how to manually restore a partition backup create
by Clonezilla (using partclone) into a VMware virtual machine, which can
be then either executed or its (virtual) disk mounted. The difficult
points are “manual” and “partition...
0 replies - 4486 views - 02/09/11 by Jakub Holý in News
A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO. And who will take the helm of the world's most powerful web technology company? None other than Larry Page, a co-founder...
0 replies - 11251 views - 01/21/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Eclipse Foundation is now taking nominations for the 2011 Eclipse Community Awards. The deadline is January 28, 2011. Categories for awards include Top Committer, Top Contributor [insert DZone's James Sugrue here ;-) ], Top Newcomer Evangelist, Most...
0 replies - 19175 views - 12/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The four JSRs behind Java 7 and Java 8 were recently approved by the Executive Committee. However, there was a good deal of discontent among members who voted for and against the JSRs. Apache kept its promise to vote against all of Oracle's proposed JSRs,...
0 replies - 22050 views - 12/08/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The Oracle VM VirtualBox has reached version 3.2.12. The virtualization app for x86 hardware just received about 20 bugfixes fixing stability issues, 64-bit guest crashes on 32-bit hosts, and some out of memory issues. There are also some GUI updates and...
0 replies - 16558 views - 12/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The WebM project has just delivered their first release of libvpx (codename: "Aylesbury"), the SDK for the VP8 open source video codec. The VP8 codec was open sourced at Google I/O this year and combined with Ogg Vorbis (an open audio codec) to...
0 replies - 18798 views - 10/31/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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