Installation:

Grab a stable net install (i386 or amd64 image) from Debian’s image download. You can try testing if you want, it should be closer to the base build of debian you are going to want but half the time the installer is severely broken until close to freeze periods in the debian freeze phase.

Setup a new VirtualBox Guest to install. Here is the basic gist:

Make sure to select Linux and Debian.

Selected the netinst ISO that you’ve just downloaded.

Make sure you enable 3D and give the GPU some memory to work with.

Configuring a Debian Guest:

Go through the normal install process and when you get to the end where you select the task. Just select “Standard Linux System” for now. Once you are done with the install reboot and replace all instances of lenny with sid in /etc/apt/sources.list and upgrade:

Once you have upgraded to sid and rebooted, log back in as root and install the desktop environment by running tasksel and selecting “Desktop Environment”:

That will install a boatload of packages so when it completes you’ll want to setup X and install the virtualbox utilities.

DKMS should build the virtualbox guest modules for your kernel on unstable or testing. For lenny or “virtualbox-ose-guest-source” you’d need to install modules-assistant and run “module-assistant” by hand to build a kernel module if it isn’t already under stable as it should be. Which is easy enough, DKMS just made that process easier/automagic.

Now you’ll want to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and update your mouse driver to be “vboxmouse” and your video driver to be “vboxvideo”. Then start up GDM and you should have access to direct rendering to run everything from compiz to avant.

Verdict:

Lets hope you made it to something like this:

Your Debian guest should now inegrate with your host computer. (clipboard, mouse, screen resizing, ability to mount shared folders) You’ll also be able to use direct rendering and opengl if you enabled it in virtualbox. There are still an annoying bug with direct rendering under linux guests where the screen does not refresh with something like compiz running. A way to make it less noticeable is to keep the screen ticking along with something changing. That is why I add the seconds to my clock on the guest. Also, if you are getting superblock in the future errors when restarting you will want to edit /etc/default/rcS to utc=no. Of course, that is only applicable to anybody west of prime meridian. I don’t know why but the virtualbox guest environment keeps regressing back to MS windows mentality/retardation of localized hardware clocks.

When I went looking for dry matter analysis or nutritional composition I noticed that people like Purina don’t really post this kind of information online. They just put a very light overview of whats in their product. I contacted them asking them about it and a few weeks later this is what showed up in the mail:

Purina Fancy Feast Nutrient Composition – May 2009

Yeah, I know… Apparently Purina has not heard of this newfangled thing called “internets” yet. I figured I’d try and save others the trouble/wait if they were interested in this information.