Interesting that it’s a *.vdi image and thus necessitates the use of VirtualBox. Not that I’ve anything against VirtualBox but if it were any of a number of other more common formats it could be fired up on QEMU/KVM or ESXi hosts for example.
I’ll look into this for future images. This is a mostly complete image meant to make things easier, rather than to be the complete and permanent solution.
Fair enough. And VirtualBox is definitely very easy for users unfamiliar w/ virtualization in general. But using, say, a vmdk image or the like would be cross-hypervisor-solution friendly and not increase the load on your server. (Plus; aside from installing the VirtualBox drivers, it’s just as user-friendly as a .vdi.) :-)
Interesting that it’s a *.vdi image and thus necessitates the use of VirtualBox. Not that I’ve anything against VirtualBox but if it were any of a number of other more common formats it could be fired up on QEMU/KVM or ESXi hosts for example.
I’ll look into this for future images. This is a mostly complete image meant to make things easier, rather than to be the complete and permanent solution.
Fair enough. And VirtualBox is definitely very easy for users unfamiliar w/ virtualization in general. But using, say, a vmdk image or the like would be cross-hypervisor-solution friendly and not increase the load on your server. (Plus; aside from installing the VirtualBox drivers, it’s just as user-friendly as a .vdi.) :-)