{"id":524,"date":"2009-05-13T00:46:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T07:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-05-26T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T06:21:22","slug":"geek-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Geek Alert!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this is one of the geekiest things I&#8217;ve ever done but other geeks will love it.  I recently got a Mac Mini so that I could try to create some apps for the iPhone.  I might be able to make a few bucks or not but I know a lot of people have quit their day job because of it.  Since I don&#8217;t have a day job at the moment I&#8217;ve nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, this is not about that.  This is about VirtualBox.  Daryl told me about it a while ago and I had played with it and a similar thing called VM Ware.<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking about the possibility of installing it on my Mac and sure enough there was a version for it.  Here&#8217;s a picture of my Mac&#8217;s screen with a Windows 7 VB and  and an Ubuntu VB running at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>My propeller is spinning at about 8,000 RPM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac-300x188.png\" alt=\"virtualboxmac\" title=\"virtualboxmac\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac-1024x641.png 1024w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac.png 1913w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an update showing I added Windows XP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac2-300x187.png\" alt=\"virtualboxmac2\" title=\"virtualboxmac2\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac2-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac2-1023x639.png 1023w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/virtualboxmac2.png 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one more update showing I added Suse and Windows 98.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vbmax.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vbmax-300x187.png\" alt=\"vbmax\" title=\"vbmax\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vbmax-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vbmax-1023x639.png 1023w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vbmax.png 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this is one of the geekiest things I&#8217;ve ever done but other geeks will love it. I recently got a Mac Mini so that I could try to create some apps for the iPhone. I might be able to make a few bucks or not but I know a lot of people have quit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}