{"id":46,"date":"2009-05-28T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T11:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-06-01T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T00:20:34","slug":"installation-testing-using-virtualbox-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/installation-testing-using-virtualbox-snapshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation testing using VirtualBox snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox is brilliant.\u00a0 You can set up Windows XP, Ubuntu Jaunty etc and test installations into them.\u00a0 Then reset to snapshot and rinse and repeat.\u00a0 Installing onto systems that are not &#8220;clean&#8221; is never as certain &#8211; perhaps you have already installed comtypes or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>One tip for sharing files between a host OS and a Linux (Ubuntu) guest OS (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtuatopia.com\/index.php\/VirtualBox_Shared_Folders\">http:\/\/www.virtuatopia.com\/index.php\/VirtualBox_Shared_Folders<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Within the guest OS, make a directory e.g.<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo mkdir \/transfer<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then mount the shared folder you set up externally in VirtualBox using:<br \/>\n<code>sudo mount -t vboxsf sharename mountpoint<\/code><br \/>\nin my case:<br \/>\n<code>sudo mount -t vboxsf transfer \/transfer<\/code><br \/>\nIt is then easy to grab files from the host OS e.g. a deb package that needs to be installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox is brilliant.\u00a0 You can set up Windows XP, Ubuntu Jaunty etc and test installations into them.\u00a0 Then reset to snapshot and rinse and repeat.\u00a0 Installing onto systems that are not &#8220;clean&#8221; is never as certain &#8211; perhaps you have already installed comtypes or whatever. One tip for sharing files between a host OS and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}