25mar10

= 25-March-2010 LUG meeting notes =

The 3rd Linux User's Group Meeting took place yesterday 25-March-2010 at 17:30, with the somewhat advanced topic of Virtualization. We survived a last minute shift in meeting rooms from EUMETSAT STG room to Room-427.

We had many presentations/demonstrations:

openSUSE Virtual Box demo (hosting Sax Linux and Ubuntu Linux)

 * 64-bit openSUSE-11.2 running Virtual Box and having Ubuntu installed under openSUSE from a liveCD in Virtual Box (installed direct from the Ubuntu boot menu installation selection);


 * 64-bit openSUSE-11.2 running Virtual Box and having Sax Linux installed under openSUSE from an iso file (with Eugenio and Alessandro's help as this was new to me. It's very useful) !  Sax installed incredibly fast from an iso.

openSUSE Virtual Box demo (hosting winXP)

 * 64-bit openSUSE-11.2 install with WinXP in Virtual box (setup in previous Linux user's group meeting) and also with the Virtual Box guest additions, being able to dynamically change resolution (plus other features) of the WinXP session virtual box window.

Mac OS/X demo (hosting Puppy Linux)

 * slide presentation of Mac OS/X running Virtual Box and having Puppy Linux installed under Mac OS/X (illustrating an install from a LiveCD I think).

Virtual Box liveCD

 * Torsten booted a liveCD to a laptop (where this was a custom Virtual Box liveCD) and tested some of the Virtual Box features. LiveCD provided by Eugenio (I think Ubuntu based).

Express Gate (BIOS) GNU/Linux boot on Asus Laptop

 * Ed gave a quick demonstration of the incredibly fast Express Gate ( ? ) Linux boot of his Asus Netbook.

Wine in openSUSE running a couple winXP applications

 * Then we had a brief look at "wine" running two MS-Windows applications under Linux: VirtualDub (used with a plug-in to stabilize shaky videos) and autostitch (used to glue multiple images together to create a panoramic view).