Hi. Can you put this vm image up and provide a link to it?
On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:47:51 PM UTC-4, peter wrote: > > If you are setting up a website on a remote server you are hiring, then > life is difficult. Setting things up often requires a lot of trial and > error. Googling how to do it is useful but comes up with many many bum > steers. Using a virtual machine on your own laptop with a duplicate of the > operating system on the remote machine makes life a lot easier. I wasted a > lot of time finding out how to best set up a virtual machine, so here are > some tips to ease the path for other users. > > Use virtual box. This allows you to have snapshots. These are brilliant as > they allow you to return the system to this point at a later date. So after > each successful step you can take a snapshot. This really helps with the > trial and error approach. > > Do not use livecds. Most operating systems income with a simpe livecd and > a much larger multiple DVD installation. Do not use the livecds, these > will cause unexpected and unpredictable problems. However the full > installation approach works reliably. Use 1GB of ram for the virtual > machine. > > When you do the installation of a linux OS, it rather alarmingly asks if > it can format your hard disk, destroying all the data on it. It evens names > your actual hard drive. However provided that it says the size of the disk > is 8GB, then you can safely let it format the drive, it is only formatting > the virtual drive not your hard disk. > > The easiest way of communicating between your normal OS and the virtual > machine is via a flash USB drive. By clicking on 'devices' and then USB > devices, you can switch the usb drive to work with either system (only one > at a time). Clearly ensure all files are closed before switching the flash > drive. > > The virtual box does successfully access the internet using a bridge with > your main operating system's connection. > > I used this virtual box approach to develop a script for Nginx with Uwsgi > and Web2py on Centos 5. This prevented my site being down for significant > amounts of time. > > Peter > > >
