virtual-machines.md

Virtual Machines

Big fan, but only recently have I used them. Two reasons:

Hoogle

Gives me a VM where I can do crazy things like editing the swap file, rebinding port 8080 to 80. All without breaking stuff. Even with such control, if I do bad things like DNS queries, someone can spot it. I have all the safety, total isolation, and still someone catches my mistakes. If it all goes wrong, we'll just format it.

Haskell development

I used VirtualBox to set up a Ubuntu workspace. I used:

• http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox

• http://sharadchhetri.com/2014/10/07/ubuntu-14-04-install-virtualbox-guest-additions-also-create-videos/, method 2