Second-level domain name and documentation update

Hi there everybody. Time for some news.

  1. We finally have a second-level domain name: I took too much time to think about that (the most obvious ones already belong to somebody else :-D ), then I decided to go the easy way :-D .Now, you can use virtualboxes.org and virtualbox.wordpress.com indifferently, you’ll get there. You do not need to update your existing links, but we encourage you to use virtualboxes.org in new ones, as we find it easy to remember (and that’s a good use for 15$ :-) ).
  2. We also have a new theme: since our posts are brief, that’s the right site to give P2 a chance. We also plan to enable comments (they are very fast and easy to use in P2) and use them as replacement for the (dying) forums.
  3. Our documentation has never been plentiful; maybe it will never become as so, but I will (slowly) try to catch the most common questions I know you’ve asked in several mailing lists (we’ve never acknowledged the support you give to us, so it’s time: thanks!) and add them. First comes a little guide to manage username and passwords in GNU/Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD and other UN*X and UN*X-like virtual machines.

New image: Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64)

Courtesy of Rainer Posel (thanks Rainer!), you can get an image of Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (x86_64 flavour) from here. Note that you need an x86_64 host system to use it.

New Image: Gentoo 2008.0 server

As per donor request, here you are a Gentoo 2008.0 image built with the (unsupported) server profile. I’ve thrown in OpenSSH, Samba and something else; you need to configure them. If you are going to use the provided example .xml file, you will need to edit it to suit your internal network needs (I just used NAT because I didn’t have time for something more complex than that).

You can get the image here.

New image: FreeBSD 7.1

A new FreeBSD 7.1 image has been added, courtesy of Lapo Luchini. Get it here.

Support forums (at last)

In order to help “younger”, newbie users asking questions, and since nobody wanted to/knew how to subscribe to the mailing list, I’ve set up a support forum here. Its structure is still a mess,  so please forgive me.

Note that you will have to login using a SourceForge.net account (OpenID isn’t supported yet) in order to post. You can get a SourceForge.net account here.

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