Virtual box

[Kevinsilhouette]

Does virtual box work on windows 7 also is it able to run ubuntu from it ? i am not to familiar with what it actually thanks =D

 

[antharr]

Does virtual box work on windows 7 also is it able to run ubuntu from it ? i am not to familiar with what it actually thanks =D

Yes and yes.

 

[whs]

Last year I had made a tutorial. You can download the PDF from here. Applies to Win7 and Ubuntu just as well.

 

[Kevinsilhouette]

Thanks for the quick replies i read that a lot of people install unbuntu 32 bit would that work on a 64 bit PC ?

 

[smarteyeball]

Thanks for the quick replies i read that a lot of people install unbuntu 32 bit would that work on a 64 bit PC ?

Yes

 

[Kevinsilhouette]

=D thanks you guys for your replies and WHS sweet Tutorial i am using it now =D

 

[pparks1]

Yeah, Virtual Box works very well...as does VMWare Player. It's great having choices and options all for free when it comes to this kind of stuff.

 

[Kevinsilhouette]

Which would you rather use i have a problem with virtual box when i try and switch the processors it can have running it i get an Error its keeping me to using only one processor. I have a AMD ATHLON x2 With 3gigs of ram on windows 7 64 Bit. It runs ok with one processor but when i open a demanding program like gimp then you can see a huge performance loss.

 

[whs]

Gimp is certainly not your typical program you want to run in a virtual partition - too demanding on resources.

 

[MilesAhead]

Speaking of VB I see they just updated(3.1.6). I'm new to VB so I'm wondering what others experience is afa just installing the update on top of a previous edition. The odds of being hosed I guess is what I mean(unless there's some other methodology other than just running the installer?) I only have on VM but even though I didn't put all that much into it I'm lazy and hate to waste it when I do make some effort.

 

[smarteyeball]

Speaking of VB I see they just updated(3.1.6). I'm new to VB so I'm wondering what others experience is afa just installing the update on top of a previous edition. The odds of being hosed I guess is what I mean(unless there's some other methodology other than just running the installer?) I only have on VM but even though I didn't put all that much into it I'm lazy and hate to waste it when I do make some effort.

I simply installed over the top. No problems.

However, if you have a Windows based guest, you may need to uninstall the existing guest additions before installing the latest 3.1.6 additions.

 

[pparks1]

Speaking of VB I see they just updated(3.1.6). I'm new to VB so I'm wondering what others experience is afa just installing the update on top of a previous edition.

Always been safe for me. Remember that the real guts of any VM is within the hard drive file. So, as long as it's not deleted during an upgrade...everything else is easily fixable. You can just create a new VM, attach your old hard drive and you are right back in business.

 

[MilesAhead]

Thanks for the insights. Good to know.

 

[Kevinsilhouette]

Have any of you had a Problem With VM when trying to Connect The Virtual Cube or Any Effects from the Appearance tab? for some reason every time i try and enable the effects it fails although in Virtual Box Its the opposite problem the Effects work flawless but it will not let me enable my 2nd processor like VM. IMO vm runs better on my machine so i would to fix the problem i am having with the effects not being able to be enabled ! =D

 

[smarteyeball]

Which distro (9.10 or 10.4 beta) and which version of Virtualbox?

VB 3.1.6 + 10.4 beta = all compiz effects (cube etc) work

Did you install the guest additions?

 

[Kevinsilhouette]

I have no problem with the effect in VB but rather it wont let me assign the second processor. Vm Ware Player is the one i have the problem with the Effects.

 

[smarteyeball]

Under VirtualBox's setting System > motherboard tab , did you enable IO APIC and then select the amount of processors?




As for VMware player, I don't use it so I can't help you there :huh:

 

[Kevinsilhouette]

Ill Reinstall VB and try it. If i get the same problem ill post a ScreenShot So you can see what it says. Thanks for the reply and help!