Cheat Sheet

linux.md

Virtual Box

Converting images

You can convert real linux disk images into VBox images:

VBoxInstallDir\VBoxManage convertdd source.img target.vdi --format VDI

Linux

Extracting files

• tar -xzf file.tar.gz for GZIP
• tar -xJf file.tar.xz for XZ

Python

Virtual environments

• For python 2: python2.7 and python-virtualenv
• For python 3: python3 and python3-virtualenv

virtualenv -p /bin/python2.7 /home/user/my2.7

Repair virtualenv

1. Create a new virtualenv for your version
2. Copy lib/python2.7/site-packages from the old env to the new one