Installing Sun's VirtualBox on Windows XP and setting up an Ubuntu VM

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1 Installing Sun's VirtualBox on Windows XP and setting up an Ubuntu VM laptop will need to have 10GB of free space to install download the latest VirtualBox software from make sure you pick the free version (NOT the open source version) install VirtualBox on Windows accepting the defaults download the Ubuntu desktop ISO image and store it on laptop C:\ at the root Installing Ubuntu start/run VirtualBox select NEW (sprocket icon on left) this starts the Create New Virtual Machine wizard select Next VM name and OS Type type the name that you want to call the virtual machine ubun2 using the drop down, select the kind of OS Ubuntu in our case Memory accept the default memory size of 512MB

$it on laptop C:\ at the root Installing Ubuntu start/run VirtualBox select NEW (sprocket icon on left) this starts the Create New Virtual Machine wizard select Next VM name$

2 Virtual Hard Disk select New Welcome to the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard accept the default Image Type Dynamically expanding image Virtual Disk Location and Size Image File Name accept the default (which will be the name of the machine entered earlier Image size accept the default typically 20.0 GB select Finish select Next review the data and select Finish You will now be back at the main VirtualBox window. click on your VM and select Settings the settings window opens. On the left side, select Audio check the Enable Audio box in the Host Audio Driver drop down, select Windows DirectSound click OK

0 GB select Finish select Next review the data and select Finish You will now be back at the main VirtualBox window.

3 Starting your VM the first time Click on the green Start arrow the Welcome to the First Run Wizard! appears click Next Select Installation Media appears Select Next In the lower section titled Media Source select the Image File radio button use the Folder button on the right of the drop down to select the location of the Ubuntu.iso file previously downloaded. (C:\path\to\file) Select Finish The Ubuntu installer starts and waits for you to select a default language for 30 seconds. After that it defaults to English Once the Installer loads, you will see a Live Session On the desktop, you will see an Install icon double click on the Install icon the Ubuntu Install window opens select English as the default language click on Forward select New York as the time zone click on Forward click on Forward to accept the default keyboard layout click on Forward to use the entire disk space supply the user information requested using your WFU id as your login click on Forward click on Install Ubuntu will begin installing

$select the location of the Ubuntu.iso file previously downloaded. (C:\path\to\file) Select Finish The Ubuntu installer starts and waits for you to select a default language for 30 seconds.$

4 Once installation is complete, click on Restart now you will need to press Enter when prompted once rebooted, you will need to login using your WFU id and the passwd you supplied after a few moments, a red down arrow will appear in the upper right hand corner. You will be prompted to install updates. Click on the arrow to open the Update Manager once it loads, click on Install Updates you will be prompted to enter your passwd to installation enter your passwd and click OK or press Enter The system will begin to download and install all updates. This will take some time. When prompted, reboot the system When prompted, login

Click on the arrow to open the Update Manager once it loads, click on Install Updates you will be prompted to enter your passwd to installation enter your

5 Installing the Guest Additions Along the top of the window frame, click on Devices click on Mount CD/DVD-ROM click on CD/DVD-ROM Image... the Virtual Disk Manager window appears click on the green Add icon Navigate to: select Open C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso make sure the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is highlighted click on Select this will place a CD-ROM on the Ubuntu desktop and open a window with the contents of the CD-ROM displayed. Close this window by clicking on the X The Guest Additions must be added as the root user. At the top of the Ubuntu window, select Applications/Accessories/Terminal This will open a command prompt window Become the root user by typing: sudo su - When prompted, type your passwd Once you get the # prompt, you are the root user. BE CAREFUL! type the following commands as root (and press Enter after each one): # cd /cdrom # ls #./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run once installed, the system will tell you to reboot. type: # init 6 (this will reboot the system)

iso is highlighted click on Select this will place a CD-ROM on the Ubuntu desktop and open a window with the contents of the CD-ROM displayed.

6 When you reboot, you will notice better integration between Windows and Ubuntu Creating the Shared Folder In your Windows file system, create a folder called vbshare at C:\ On the Ubuntu machine, once again become root. create a directory at the root level called winshare # cd / # mkdir /winshare click on the Devices menu at the top of the window click on Shared Folders... click on the blue folder with the green + on the right click on the folder path down arrow and select Other navigate to C:\vbshare click the Make Permanent check box click on OK click on OK (again) use the following command to mount the Windows folder to the Ubuntu filesystem # mount -t vboxsf vbshare /winshare you may now move items back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu using the shared folder In order to make the mount survive a reboot of the VM, the /etc/fstab must have the following entry added to the end of the file (may only be done as root user): vbshare /winshare vboxsf rw 0 0 You may also want to create an icon shortcut on the Ubuntu desktop to the folder for ease of use

$.. click on the blue folder with the green + on the right click on the folder path down arrow and select Other navigate to C:\vbshare click the Make Permanent check box click on OK click on OK$

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