VirtualBox: Windows on your Ubuntu
Posted by thio4linux on October 2, 2007
If your Ubuntu doesn’t satisfy you totally…
VirtualBox is a virtual machine (I think the best one) Open Source with which you can emulate on your Ubuntu each Windows system until the last Win Vista… A very good way to integrate all your favourite winzoz programs in Linux when wine doesn’t support them.
Official Site: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Manual: http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf
how to install:
Download the package form here and install it.
Then lauch VirtualBox typing “VirtualBox” in your shell; probably you’ll read something like this:
Could not lock the settings file ‘/home/user/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml’ (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED). because you haven’t the privilege to do that so:
$ sudo chown -R username.vboxusers /home/username/.VirtualBox and in this way you’ll create a new user in the VirtualBox group (substitute “username” with your username).
Now everything must be all right and you’ll have installed your Virtual Machine.
Create a new virtual machine is simple and you can choose from a lot of settings.
