Virtual box in Ubuntu - Installation

Virtual box in Ubuntu - Installation

March 24, 2008 by taufanlubis

If you need to run other Operating System in Ubuntu, you have to use a Virtual Machine. There are few most used Virtual Machines available on the internet, Virtual Box is one of them.

I like to use Virtual Box because it’s easy to operate.

Installation

From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:

taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

Note, selecting virtualbox-ose instead of virtualbox

The following extra packages will be installed:

virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic

Recommended packages:

virtualbox-ose-source

The following NEW packages will be installed:

virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 6012kB of archives.

After unpacking 19.3MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic virtualbox-ose

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic 6 [317kB]

Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe virtualbox-ose 1.5.0-dfsg2-1ubuntu3 [5695kB]

Fetched 6012kB in 2m30s (40.0kB/s)

Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic.

(Reading database … 152703 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic (from …/virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic_6_i386.deb) …

Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose.

Unpacking virtualbox-ose (from …/virtualbox-ose_1.5.0-dfsg2-1ubuntu3_i386.deb) …

Setting up virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic (6) …

Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/vboxdrv …

* Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv [ OK ]

Setting up virtualbox-ose (1.5.0-dfsg2-1ubuntu3) …

taufanlubis@toshiba:~$

How to run?

• Before you run the Virtual Box, you must have a permisson, otherwise you will get an error.

• Open System > Administration > Users and Groups > Manage Groups.

Choose vboxusers then click Properties.

Mark on your user name and click OK.

Now, your user name has a permission to run Virtual Box.

Now, your user name has a permission to run Virtual Box.

Open Applications > System Tools > Innotek Virtualbox.

Now, you are ready to use Virtual Box.