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Installing and configuring VirtualBox for virtual OSes

The world of virtual OSes continues to grow and grow. If you never experienced a virtual OS you should know they are outstanding tools that will help you with many tasks. You can test various environments, you can run software you couldn’t run before (i.e. games), you can run less stable OSes within more stable [...]

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Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

System Virtualization With MokaFive

The system virtualization software MokaFive Player has been installed on a test system quite some time know and I finally found the spare time to test it extensively. The virtualization software allows users to create and run so called LivePCs on their computer desktop. A Live PC is a virtual computing environment that makes use [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 30th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Installing An Operating System With Virtual PC 2007

Several free applications exist to install operating systems on so called virtual machines. This method provides a few benefits, for example the option to reset it whenever it is needed. It provides a great way of accessing operating systems either to test them or to run applications which would not run on the default operating [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 21st, 2007
  • Comments: 5

A Sandbox for Applications

Sandboxie does what virtual machines such as VMware Player, Virtual Box and Microsoft Virtual Pc do with the difference that it works on the application level and not the operating system one. Instead of running a virtual operating system that makes it safe to try and test software it lets you run software in a sandbox on your current operating system with the same result. The normal process in an operating system is that applications can read and write date from the system.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Tools, Windows

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