Aug
07
Upgrading VirtualBox and Virtualizing the Ubuntu 8.10 Alphas
Posted by suvi under Ubuntu, Virtualization
If you’re upgrading from the version of VirtualBox you get from Ubuntu 8.04’s repository to the latest version from Sun, there are a few issues that could trip you up. I was doing this recently in order to run the latest Ubuntu alpha releases in a virtual machine, more on that in the second half of this post.
VirtualBox 1.6 adds seamless windowing for Linux guests, virtual SATA hard disks, PAE support (lets you boot Ubuntu server kernels), and better support for newer guests OSs.
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