- Attach the Host DVD drive to a Virtualbox VM
Just a quick note because it took me a while to figure it out. If you have a Virtualbox VM running headless and would like to attach the host DVD drive without having to boot into the Virtualbox GUI, use VBoxManage: VBoxManage storageattach “VM-Name” –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 1 –device 0 –type dvddrive –medium Host:/dev/cdrom [...]
- Installing a Debian based Linux with debootstrap
Quick summary The command line tool debootstrap allows you to install a Debian based Linux system while keeping running an already installed Linux system, which need not be from the Debian family. So you can install a new system, while the current system is running. Why would you want to do that? Maybe you installed [...]
