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Installing and setting up virtual box was not without pain, but once I finally got it running i was very happy with its performance. Also I didn't experience any problems with sudden restarts etc. It could easily run 10 machines on my 8gb of ram. I have had problems with many other approaches to installing virtual box! Do note that I have experienced Windows virtual machines becoming corrupt, perhaps due to my underlying filesystem (ext4) which I have found people advice against. Here are some of my notes. How to set up virtual box from scratch with auto-start. Ensure you have the latest updates $ sudo apt-get update Install dkms to ensure upgrades in the future don't trouble us $ sudo apt-get install dkms (Optional) Make sure your system is up-to-date $ apt-get upgrade Download the package Find the package by www-browser (remember it must match platform and version) $ sudo www-browser www.virtualbox.org put it on disk and call it virtua...

Ok, so my first blog entry will be about how I recently installed postgresql 9.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 and some links. I couldn't get apt-get install to work, so I had to download a deb file and install it myself. Here are the steps: Verify that it has started: In order to talk with postgresql you can run this (then you don't have to modify PATH): To load this postgres into your environment, source the env file (if you don't run this you will get errors like stuff you need to install): Now you can try: Try to create a database (will ask for postgres password). Backup and restore that worked: Backup: http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2010/07/a_better_backup_with_postgresql_using_pg_dump/ References: http://wiki.openscg.com/index.php/Postgres_9.1_DEB http://library.linode.com/databases/postgresql/ubuntu-10.10-maverick http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2010/07/a_better_backup_with_postgresql_using_...