[wplug] Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and Virtualbox Windows XP guest
Patrick Wagstrom
patrick at wagstrom.net
Wed May 7 17:35:11 EDT 2008
Sam Al-Droubi wrote:
>
> */Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net>/* wrote:
>
> Sam Al-Droubi wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have been running Ubuntu 7.10 as host and Windows XP as guest
> under
> > Virtualbox. I am considering an upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 but wanted to
> > know first if anyone has done this with success?
>
> VirtualBox works just fine in Hardy. There were some issues with USB in
> the older version, but I think 1.6 (released last week) has fixed
> those issues.
>
> Works like a charm. No annoying third party kernel patches or anything
> like that. Just visit virtualbox.org, grab the hardy deb file, and
> off you
> go. Pretty. Frickin. Sweet.
> Thank you for the information. Can I upgrade from Virtualbox 1.5.6 to
> 1.6 or do I need to uninstall 1.5.6 and then install 1.6?
Just download the .deb file and either use gdebi or "dpkg -i FILENAME",
that will take care of the upgrade process.
Of note, I haven't tried this on my server that has a bit more complicated
of a setup (bridged ethernet, etc), but on my desktop it went off without a
hitch. VM Migrated properly and everything.
Now, if only they could get multi-monitor seamless working like VMWare just
announced in fusion 2.0...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgjQd1gtkKM
--Patrick
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