Tag Archives: VirtualBox

Converting from VirtualBox or VMWare to EC2 now Easier than Ever

By | Published: August 25, 2010
The new PV-Grub ability introduced by Amazon for EC2 has opened the door for more than just custom kernels, it also makes it a lot easier to turn VirtualBox and VMWare instances into EC2 instances. In the past I have written about transfering VirtualBox images to Xen but to do that with EC2 required a [...]
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Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

By | Published: January 12, 2009
I have been seeing people talk about the Windows 7 Beta being available to download so I went to see how hard it was to sign up. It turns out that it actually pretty easy so I decided I would give it a try under VirtualBox just to see if it would work. The following [...]
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