Here is a good tutorial on how to get a wordpress instance up and running via virtualbox. http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-build-a-speedy-wordpress-sandbox-vm/ On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:38 AM, mr.chew.baka at gmail.com < mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed. You could skip the vm thing altogether, and just install WAMP on > win8. Gives you everything you need without killing your resources. After > all it's a sand box. > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Erik Mitchell" <erik.mitchell at gmail.com> > To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: [tclug-list] Wanted: Good distro for VirtualBox to run WordPress > Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 06:11 > > > The distro shouldn't matter at all -- the only hard requirements for > Wordpress are PHP and MySQL. You can run those on Linux, Windows, Mac > OS, BSD, and probably others as well. > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:57 PM, David S. Cargo <escargo at skypoint.com> > wrote: > > I want to create a sandbox system to experiment with WordPress. > > > > I've got a still-shiny Windows 8 laptop that I have installed > > VirtualBox on. > > > > I've been experimenting with some light distros (Puppy and SLAX) > > just to see how the run in the virtual environment (not so good > > with Puppy, and fine, but limited with SLAX). > > > > I also have an lubuntu 12.04 that runs fine. > > > > I used the Synaptic package manager to download and install a bunch > > of extra packages that are not part of the base install. I've got > > WordPress downloaded and installed, but not yet properly configured. > > (It doesn't seem to install itself "out of the box" and I still need > > to figure out how to get it connected with MySQL.) > > > > Are there better light-weight distros for this application? An easy > > to install WordPress might not be possible, but I thought I would > > ask. > > > > Any favorite distros for running in VirtualBox? > > > > Thanks. > > > > escargo > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130326/016a4b06/attachment.html>