{"id":557,"date":"2008-08-03T20:07:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2008-08-03T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T05:00:15","slug":"think-outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Think outside the box."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to install <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a><\/strong> this week. This is Sun&#8217;s freeware software that will allow you to run virtualized software like windows or pretty much any OS. Some of the commercial programs like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">VMware<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parrallels<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I was getting tired of the memory leak issues with Fusion so I decided to try this program. First off, the install was a piece of cake. It takes up a lot less disk space.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the patience to figure out how to convert my VMware images over, so I just decided to re-install XP from scratch. The install went supper fast. I installed from a network ISO and it took 1\/2 the time of Fusion. The software boots really fast and so does the guest os. I can be up and running in almost a quarter of the time that it takes fusion to load.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into a DNS bridging issue, but was able to fix it after a day of troubleshooting.<\/p>\n<p>So far I am very impressed with this product. I will give an update as I use it more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to install VirtualBox this week. This is Sun&#8217;s freeware software that will allow you to run virtualized software like windows or pretty much any OS. Some of the commercial programs like VMware and Parrallels. I was getting tired of the memory leak issues with Fusion so I decided to try this program. First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muggle-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourservice.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}