{"id":1924,"date":"2009-11-11T17:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.databook.bz\/?page_id=1924"},"modified":"2009-11-11T17:20:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:20:38","slug":"virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=1924","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox is free, <a title=\"Wikipedia - Open Source\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source\" target=\"_blank\">Open Source<\/a> <a title=\"Wikipedia - Virtualization\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtualization\" target=\"_blank\">virtualization<\/a> software that allows users to run multiple virtualized Linux, Solaris, BSD, OS\/2 and\/or Windows systems at one time. Each <a title=\"Wikipedia - Virtual Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_machine\" target=\"_blank\">virtual machine<\/a> runs as a guest on the host system, which can also be Linux, Solaris or Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Virtualization can be used for many reasons. It can be used to maximize usage of hardware capital resources by running multiple virtual computers on a single piece of hardware. It can be used to provide secure, isolated virtual environments for varied types of software, such as in a development environment where you may wish to do development one one virtual machine and testing on another, both of which are hosted on the same physical computer.<\/p>\n<p>This section discusses various solutions to problems I have encountered while using VirtualBox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox is free, Open Source virtualization software that allows users to run multiple virtualized Linux, Solaris, BSD, OS\/2 and\/or Windows systems at one time. Each virtual machine runs as a guest on the host system, which can also be Linux,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=1924\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1307,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1924","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1924\/revisions\/1926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}