Installing Linux with Virtual Box

March 12th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in

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How to install a virtual machine to try out a Linux distribution.

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How to configure xen in RHEL5.0

On May 5th, 2009 Bala (not verified) says:

Dear Sir,
I had installed RHEL5 & configured xen now can you guide me the procuder how to install RHEL5.0 in my vertual machine.

The RHCL DVD is dumped in the folder /var/ftp/pub.

Reagrds,
BALA

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