On Friday 19 September 2008 09:38:04 Stephan Peijnik wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 08:59 +0200, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > > I would like to find out from the list what they use on there laptops for > > virtulization. > > > > I'm needing to run a vm on my laptop for using as a development server, > > and I need it to be able to access the network my wifi card is attached > > to. > > > > I have scoured the interweb and havn't found what I'm looking for (other > > then vmware which has some issues) > > > > I would prefer to run the latest etch-n-half kernel, possibly even lenny > > although I don't have lenny yet. > > Personally I am using VirtualBox OSE for exact the reason you would like > virtualization. > > After a quick check virtualbox-ose is either available within Lenny > (including the kernel module) or via etch-backports where you need to > build the kernel module yourself though. > > For a list of packages available in Debian check > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=virtualbox-ose. > > Regards, > > Stephan Stephan, I was using VirtualBox for a while, but could never get the bridged mode working due to my laptop connecting via wifi, but then again no one else needs to access my dev box anymore. Well DHCP wasn't working. Will give it a bash again, thank you... -- Thank you, Clifford W. Hansen PHP Developer / Linux Administrator (Cell) +27 82 883 8677 (Fax) +27 86 503 0634 (E-Mail) clifford@nighthawk.co.za (MSN) clifford@nighthawk.co.za (GPG) 0x936D6C19 "We have seen strange things today!" () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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