Amazon Linux Vagrant Box Images
Amazon Linux images suitable for VMware, Virtualbox, and box images for Vagrant ready for download and use.
Amazon Linux images suitable for VMware, Virtualbox, and box images for Vagrant ready for download and use.
In part one of this series, I described how to get the basic distribution copied down from AWS to a local partition within a virtualized environment. For part two of this series, I described putting a working kernel and kernel tool building environment on the virtual disk created during part 1, and boot it up for the first time. You […]
Part 2 of a series of posts continuing the steps required to get a bootable instance of Amazon Linux locally via VMware Fusion.
Part 1 of a series of posts on how to get Amazon Linux out of EC2 and onto your local system so you can use Vagrant to run automation tests against.
Run up Chef tests against an Amazon Linux image via Vagrant (both VMware Fusion/ Workstation, and Virtualbox instances) without having to wait and pay for EC2 instances to launch and be destroyed.
pics of my new shiny Mac Pro! Decided it was time for an upgrade as running 3-4 VMs at once was getting to be a little … slow at times. And having VMs eating processor and RAM while playing World of Warcraft? Â For shame! Â Work and play at the same time causes sumthin’ sumthin’… New system has 12GB RAM and […]
Oh my, no contest. Fusion installed approximately 50% faster than Parallels. In fact, I think Win2K8 installs faster virtually (ESX, ESXi, Fusion, and Parallels) faster than on native hardware via standard DVDROM. Not much more to say, was just an unexpected outcome/observation.