It’s not hard to see why: WordPress is incredibly easy to use, comes with thousands of extensions and themes, and is completely free and open source. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world, in use on over 60 million websites (according to Wikipedia). In this guide, I’ll walk you, step by step, through the process of using a Bitnami virtual appliance with VirtualBox to quickly get started using a new server application. There are no additional libraries, databases, and runtimes to deal with, and the virtual machine is completely isolated from software installed on your machine. Using a virtualization platform like VirtualBox, you can simply start the Bitnami virtual machine image whenever you want to use the application. There is, however, an alternative and simple approach: a Bitnami virtual machine. There are files to download and copy, configuration settings to be adjusted, and various other hoops to jump through before you can actually get some productive work in. If you’ve ever tried installing a server application (like WordPress) or a development environment (like an Apache/PHP/MySQL environment), you already know that it’s a lot harder than it seems at first glance. Get Started with Bitnami Applications using VirtualBox

Virtualbox interface