Comments on: How to work from home when you don’t have your company computer http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/265 Often incoherent, usually random Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:19:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Phil http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/265/comment-page-1#comment-169 Phil Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:30:00 +0000 http://blog.nomzit.com/?p=265#comment-169 If you use iSCSI you have to allocate the whole thing in advance, as VirtualBox doesn't have a way to expand/shrink the disk. So I don't have any of the kind of image you are talking about there. From within my linux image there seems to be about 4.5Gb used, not counting the contents of my home directory. It's probably quicker to install Karmic and add the IBM layers from scratch than downloading a pre-canned image of that size: the packages are quite well compressed, and you would only download the latest ones, whereas if you got a pre-canned image you would probably spend all the time you saved and more downloading updates. If you use iSCSI you have to allocate the whole thing in advance, as VirtualBox doesn’t have a way to expand/shrink the disk. So I don’t have any of the kind of image you are talking about there. From within my linux image there seems to be about 4.5Gb used, not counting the contents of my home directory.

It’s probably quicker to install Karmic and add the IBM layers from scratch than downloading a pre-canned image of that size: the packages are quite well compressed, and you would only download the latest ones, whereas if you got a pre-canned image you would probably spend all the time you saved and more downloading updates.

]]> By: Russell Finn http://blog.nomzit.com/archives/265/comment-page-1#comment-168 Russell Finn Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:56:47 +0000 http://blog.nomzit.com/?p=265#comment-168 Sounds good Phil. So do you now have a VirtualBox ubuntu image with the AT&T client installed and a minimal set of apps (an editor and Firefox might suffice, at least initially)? How big is the virtual image? VirtualBox allows you to dynamically allocate space in the physical file that is used to store the virtual hard disk, so you could have a downloadable image that is eg 2GB big but logically 20GB inside (sounds like the Tardis). Sounds good Phil. So do you now have a VirtualBox ubuntu image with the AT&T client installed and a minimal set of apps (an editor and Firefox might suffice, at least initially)? How big is the virtual image?

VirtualBox allows you to dynamically allocate space in the physical file that is used to store the virtual hard disk, so you could have a downloadable image that is eg 2GB big but logically 20GB inside (sounds like the Tardis).

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