Advantages of this guide:
· Much easier installation method
· Works with any Windows version
· Less software to configure and install
Disadvantages of this guide:
· No desktop effects! That means, Compiz Fusion will not play nice with VirtualBox in Seamless mode.
Step 1: Install necessary software:
Here’s how to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu OS:
1. Click the above link and download VirtualBox for your architecture (i386 or amd64). Please notice that on the download page for VirtualBox, you will find packages for many other Linux distributions, in case you don’t use Ubuntu.
2. Good, now that the download is finished, double click the .deb file and install the software.
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3. You must execute the following command in a terminal window, in order to use VirtualBox:
sudo adduser yourusername vboxusers
4. Log out of your current session and the log back in.
That’s it!
Step 2: Prepare VirtualBox to run Windows
The VirtualBox application will be installed in the System Tools category, so open it from Applications -> System Tools -> Innotek VirtualBox if you are a GNOME user, or from KMenu -> System -> More applications -> Innotek VirtualBox if you are a KDE user.
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Create the virtual machine
Now, you need to:
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1. Click the “New” button to create a new virtual machine.
2. Select “Windows XP” as the OS Type and write a name for your virtual machine.
3. Click Next and drag the memory slider to 256 MB. If you have more than 1GB RAM, you can rise the slider to 512 MB.
4. Click Next and hit the ‘New’ button to create a new hard drive:
4a. Click Next
4b. Select the ‘Fixed-size image’ option and click Next
4c. Decrease the initial value to 6 GB by dragging the slider in this screen. If you have a bigger hard drive (250 GB or 500 GB) then you can leave the slider to 10 GB (default option). Click Next.
4d. Click Finish.
5. You can see now the newly created hard drive. Just click Next and then Finish.
The virtual machine is now created and all you have to do is to make some basic settings to it before you start installing Windows.
(not my article)
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This did not work for me. I’m using latest Kubuntu 7.10, running on an AMD64 x2. Downloaded Virtualbox debian amd64. Error message ‘Wrong architecture amd64′ while installing this. Any suggestions?
dear harry,
this error is because the Software does not supports your processor.
I’d suggest that you try to contact the writer of this tutorial or the author of the software….chk the link provided
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