{"id":935,"date":"2014-03-13T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T12:40:31","slug":"optimizing-crunchbang-linux-for-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing CrunchBang Linux for VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CrunchBang Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/crunchbang.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CrunchBang<\/a>\u00a0is an excellent version of Linux to run in <a title=\"VirtualBox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a>\u00a0due to the fact that it&#8217;s a nimble <a title=\"Openbox\" href=\"http:\/\/openbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Openbox<\/a>\u00a0Linux distribution. That being said, the OS still requires tweaking after install in a VM to get the most performance and satisfaction out of it. I&#8217;ve put together a guide to walk one through the installation and optimization settings. So take this opportunity to grab the requisite softwares:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"VirtualBox Downloads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox 4.3.8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"CrunchBang Linux Downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/crunchbang.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">CrunchBang Linux<\/a>\u00a0(recommend the 32-bit non-PAE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then click <strong><a title=\"Optimizing CrunchBang Linux for VirtualBox\" href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?page_id=940\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to see how it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrunchBang\u00a0is an excellent version of Linux to run in VirtualBox\u00a0due to the fact that it&#8217;s a nimble Openbox\u00a0Linux distribution. That being said, the OS still requires tweaking after install in a VM to get the most performance and satisfaction out of it. I&#8217;ve put together a guide to walk one through the installation and optimization &#8230; <a title=\"Optimizing CrunchBang Linux for VirtualBox\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=935\" aria-label=\"Read more about Optimizing CrunchBang Linux for VirtualBox\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}