virtualization

How To Create a Moveable VM with VirtualBox

VirtualBox works good when you use the same VMs all the time. It organizes the disk images in one directory and the configuration files in another. It kees a record of all known disk images and virtual machines.

If you try to carry a VM around with you on an USB stick or want to put it on an encrypted image, then you will get trouble.

Virtual Network Visualization

OpenSolaris supports virtual networks using virtual interfaces connected with virtual switches.
This feature was introduced with Project Crossbow in OpenSolaris 2009.06.
To visualize the internal network(s), I created a perl script which takes the output of dladm show-link and dladm show-linkprop -o link,value -p zone and generates a dot-File, which then can be rendered using Graphviz.

Home Server

My Solaris server at home, set up according to the Immutable Service Container principles.

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