FreeBSD jails. Alternative to Oracle VM VirtualBox
Just recently I wrote about my frustration with developing this website on my laptop. Apple’s changes to the operating system and my tendency to experiment with various —apparently at times conflicting— tools and libraries introduce problems that get in the way when the job at hand is simply writing a new blog post. My solution was the creation of a virtual machine using Oracle VM VirtualBox and Ubuntu as the host system. That worked well, but soon a question came to my mind: “Can we have more fun with a virtual machine?” The answer is yes. Read on.