Just follow the screenshots to install FreeBSD 9.0 in a Virtual Machine!

In my previous post I demonstrated how to install VirtualBox 4.1.14 on Windows 7 Home Premium. What good is VirtualBox without a Virtual Machine running in it though?

Let's see what it takes to setup VirtualBox for FreeBSD 9.0

First of all figure out if you have …

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Almost a year and a half ago I demonstrated how to install VirtualBox 3.2 on Windows XP Home Edition. A lot of things have changed since then and VirtualBox has improved in some areas, most importantly on the handling of USB interfaces and multi-core hosts/guests.

This …

In this post we'll start going into the famous Apache web server.

Some prerequisites:

Make sure that you have set up your VirtualBox to use 'Bridged Adapter' for your network adapter. In case you don't know how to do this, look in my tutorial for a step by step guide …

In the 2 previous tutorials, we saw how to install Apache on FreeBSD and how to get it to work with OpenSSL for encrypted connections. In this one, we'll install the uber popular server-side programming language PHP.

Start by booting up FreeBSD. Then the first thing you'll want to do …

As promised in a previous post I finally got around to running a very simple test that can be a good indicator of performance change.

I have compiled OpenSSL from port on both VirtualBoxes. Everything else is the same, including all options in VirtualBox.

Just to be clear though, this …

It seems the good people over at Oracle have released a major upgrade to VirtualBox. As everyone who bothers to read this blog knows I'm a big supporter as VirtualBox is free and opensource, meaning you can use it in almost any way possible - legally and without paying a dime …

In this post we'll see how we can take our very basic FreeBSD installation and install X-Windows in it. My favorite desktop environment so far is IceWM although it may seem rather very primitive for some. In most cases it provides enough functionality to make life sufficiently easy without hogging …

1. Open up VirtualBox

2. Click once to select the Virtual Machine you want to run , then click 'Start' to get the party started

3. If all goes well you should see a Screen like this .. just click enter or just let it continue on it's own

4. After some …

This is the sequel to my previous post on installing VirtualBox on Windows XP Home.

This will walk you through setting up a Virtual Machine for FreeBSD 8.1 on Windows XP Home with no problems.

Now that the installation is complete it's time to set up a new VirtualBox …