Optimizing Your Virtual Machine

A few things Professor Darden did to spruce up his virtual machine that you can try!

While you were away, I…

• updated my Guest Additions to 5.2.6
  • Host: Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD Image…
• attached a shared folder from my host
  • Check the VirtualBox host app GUI
  • Added myself to the guest vboxsf user group by editing /etc/group
• installed the full vim and GUI vim
  • % sudo apt-get remove -y vim-tiny
  • % sudo apt-get install -y vim vim-gnome
• made vim my default editor
  • % echo "export EDITOR='vi'" >> .bashrc
  • % echo "export VISUAL='vi'" >> .bashrc
• installed bash-git-prompt
  • % git clone https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt.git ~/.bash-git-prompt --depth=1
  • % echo "GIT_PROMPT_ONLY_IN_REPO=1" >> .bashrc
  • % echo ". ~/.bash-git-prompt/gitprompt.sh" >> .bashrc
• installed curl
  • % sudo apt-get install -y curl
• installed Brave (web browser)
  • Got it from brave.com
  • Made it my default browser
• added keyboard shortcuts
  • to open a File Browser
  • to open a Web Browser (Brave)
• cleaned up my desktop launchers
  • unlocked some, locked some, reordered things
• installed Asciinema (for terminal recordings)`
  • % sudo apt-add-repository ppa:zanchey/asciinema
  • % sudo apt-get update
  • % sudo apt-get install asciinema
  • then I edited its config file a bit (~/.config/asciinema/config)

[record]
command = /bin/bash -l
maxwait = 2
yes = true
quiet = true

[play]
maxwait = 1