Monthly Archives: December 2009

Remind me why I stupidly decided to use VirtualBox again ?

Posted on December 23, 2009 by mark

Curse virtualbox. The removal of the ability to compact images cripled me for almost a week. Oh yeah, I started using it because responses from the VM in heavy GUI apps was faster in VirtualBox than QEMU. I made a … Continue reading →

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Do not use the default filesystem layout for Fedora installs

Posted on December 8, 2009 by mark

Well I finally got my desktop and development server upgraded to FC12; and what a nightmare that was. For anyone doing a fresh Fedora install DO NOT accept the default filesystem layout !. Updating the FC11 desktop server that I … Continue reading →

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