VirtualBox Blog Posts

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• Android Development with VirtualBox and the LG P500 phone

  Jan 7, 2011 · Android · VirtualBox

  Having recently acquired my first smart-phone (a new LG P500 Android phone) I decided it was time to learn some Android programming. This post summarizes my trials and tribulations getting the LG P500 phone to talk to my Android Eclipse development environment (Eclipse plus Android SDK running on a VirtualBox Linux guest).

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• Moving between VirtualBox Hosts

  Nov 29, 2010 · VirtualBox

  Published: 2010-11-28

  A description of the issues I encountered moving my VBox environment from one host to another.

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• Deleting VirtualBox Snapshots

  Jun 19, 2010 · VirtualBox

  The Discard current snapshot and state command dishappeared as of VirtualBox version 3.1 leaving VirtualBox with no obvious way of deleting snapshot disk state (the misnamed Delete Snapshot command merges the snapshot into the parent). The good news is that you can delete snapshots using the branched snapshots feature introduced in version 3.1.

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• Merging and Compacting VirtualBox Snapshots

  Jun 17, 2010 · python · VirtualBox

  Using the VirtualBox GUI to manually merge lots of snapshots is time consuming and fiddly so I wrote a Python script called vboxmerge.py to do this automatically. The script merges a snapshot branch into the base VDI with a single command (it also illustrates how easy it is to script VirtualBox using Python).

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• Cloning and Copying VirtualBox virtual machines

  Nov 2, 2008 · VirtualBox

  This article explains how to clone and copy VirtualBox VMs (virtual machines).

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