I am liking Windows 7 (using, 7600-RTM), mainly because of the window-snapping feature, especially the 50%-two windows on the desktop feature. It does increase productivity. Plus, at times, I have to use Word '07 and very rarely fireworks. That is why I am temporarily shifting to Windows 7.
I am trying to set up Linux in VirtualBox as I am totally new to virtualisation software.
Things I have done:
- Chose grml, a Debian-based (because of super-duper apt-engine) light-weight system-tools distro.
- Installed VirtualBox and made a new 3GB dynamic HDD image for it. I mounted my grml-medium-2009.10.iso, live-booted from it, at shell, cfdisk, made a 3GB partition (it showed 3GB from the virtual HDD of VirtualBox then grml2hd (to install grml on hard-disk). I included Debian repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list. sudo apt-get install build-essential lxde manpages-posix-dev, etc.
The machine is up, but I have some questions:
- I am unable to run my grml in full-screen mode. hostkey+F gives a black screen, but grml is still running in some reduced resolution.
- How do you share files between guest and the host OS (the best/easiest or the recommended way)?
- I am a network n systems programmer, so what best tools do you suggest I use, apart from nmap, ethereal-wireshark, and iptables?
- Is there a way to ssh to my grml from Windows?
- What are your favorite VirtualBox addons?
- What are best practices or advice from your experience?