Digital Rants

Always had a problem with VirtualBox. SMP will crash my VM. So I updated to v3.0.2 hoping it will solve the issue. And I think it has, so fingers crossed there. With that out of the way, I changed my scaling_governor for all my CPUs from "Performance… more »

First time Wikipedia has let me down. While researching chipsets, Wikipedia's page told me G31 don't do VTx. I struggled over that but decided the feature is not worth $100 cold hard cash. Turns out it's wrong. The motherboard I have has this option "… more »

I took the long way when migrating from VMWare Server 1/2 to VirtualBox. There is a simpler way! All VirtualBox needs is a disk image file, and although it works with VMDK images straight away, I prefer to convert them to the VDI format. For the foll… more »

Update: Changed slightly to reflect points from beta 2. I like beta software. It basically tells me how competent and polished the development team is. And how good the team is managed. Readers of my blog will no doubt remember the scathing review (li… more »