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Using VNC with headless VirtualBox VMs
The OSE edition of VirtualBox 4.1.8 under FreeBSD includes support for VNC when running in headless mode. This short note documents the fact for my own records. Today I upgraded to VirtualBox 4.1.8_OSE...
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Adding Intel PXE Boot under FreeBSD/VirtualBox
I’ve upgraded my home FreeBSD 8 server’s instance of VirtualBox to 4.1.8, and wanted to play with PXE booting inside VMs using the virtual Intel NICs. By default this isn’t supported. But information...
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Using USB 2.0 devices under FreeBSD / VirtualBox
I’ve upgraded my home FreeBSD 8 server’s instance of VirtualBox to 4.1.8, and wanted to play with passing USB devices through from the FreeBSD host to VirtualBox guests. This turns out to be supported...
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Growing existing virtual disks with VirtualBox
I’ve upgraded my home FreeBSD 8 server’s instance of VirtualBox to 4.1.8_OSE, and ran across an issue with my Windows 7 VM. The VM’s primary virtual hard drive (C:) was initially created as 20GB, and I...
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The QuadPawn programming environment on a DSO Quad
This post describes my brief experience with Petteri Aimonen‘s QuadPawn interpreter to run larger programs from the DSO Quad‘s 2MB USB drive. I’ve dabbled with compiling Pawn programs under both WinXP...
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