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    Install virtual machine with Virtual Box in Ubuntu

    It has been mostly in the corporate world where we have seen a remarkable growth in the use of this technology and have been many companies have begun to use virtualization solutions to reduce costs and maximize resources on servers that have available. In personal computers has not seen the same growth in the use of virtualization. Much has changed in recent years and today there are solutions easy to install and use, even for non-professional users. The three most important products in the world of personal computer virtualization are VMware, KVM, and VirtualBox. This article is an overview of VirtualBox, a virtualization solution SUN easy to use and gives us the ability to create virtual machines on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Of the solutions I've tried lately for personal computers is VirtualBox which I liked.

    With Virtual Box you can install virtual machines that use one of many supported operating systems, including Linux2.2, Linux2.4, Linux2.6, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RedHat, openSUSE, Gentoo, Turbolinux, Solaris, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD , OpenBSD, NetBSD, IBM OS / 2, DOS, Netware and Windows in all its variants (3.1, W95, W98, ME, NT4, XP, 2000, 2003, 2008, Vista and Windows7). As you can see, the possibilities are many, we have no excuses not to try new operating systems in an easy and comfortable in our computer.

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    Re: Install virtual machine with Virtual Box in Ubuntu

    In our case we follow the instructions to install the 3.0.12 version of VirtualBox in Ubuntu 9.04 and had no problems during installation. These are the commands that run on your system:
    Code:
    sudo-i
     echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free ">> / etc / apt / sources.list
     wget-q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O-| sudo apt-key add -
     apt-get update
     apt-get install dkms-virtualbox 3.0
    Once installed all you need to run VirtualBox is just starting the program. In my case the installed VirtualBox icon in the menu "Applications-> System Tools-> Sun VirtualBox" from my desktop.

    The first time you start VirtualBox have that to accept the license and register the program (if you want). The first thing to do after these steps if you want to have everything in Spanish is to enter the menu "File-> Preference-> Language" and change the default language according to your need. After this, go into "File-> Preferences-> General" and change the value of "Default Folder hard" and "Default Folder machines" to the folders you like to use to record everything related to disks and virtual machines that square on VirtualBox.

    To create our first virtual machine only have to click on the "New" or choose the menu "Machine-> New." Doing so will launch a wizard that will help us define the most important parameters of our virtual machine. The first thing we have to do is choose a name for the VM you are creating and select the operating system we will install in it. In our case we call the machine "Ubuntu 9.10" and choose the OS "Linux-> Ubuntu (64bit)".

    Then we have to choose how much memory you have available our virtual machine. Be careful not to choose more memory than you can assign in your computer. This memory is used by the virtual machine when running and will not be available in the main machine running the virtual. In our example we have a computer with 8GB of memory so we can easily assign 2GB to the virtual. The next step is to create a new virtual hard disk. We created it with a fixed size, we call Ubuntu_9.10 and assign a size of 10GB.

    Finally you have that to accept the options you have chosen to create the virtual disk. And VirtualBox will create the virtual machine that you have defined.

    On the left side of the window you have the virtual machine that you have already created the right settings for that machine. Can you change the different sections by clicking on them. In our example we will click on the section "Screen" to increase the video memory allocated to our virtual machine and enable 3D acceleration.

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    Re: Install virtual machine with Virtual Box in Ubuntu

    Once we have our virtual machine configured to our liking, we will have to reinstall your operating system chosen in this virtual machine. In our case we introduce the Ubuntu 9.10 CD in the CD and click on the section "CD / DVD-ROM" of our virtual machine to set our reader to be mounted on the main and virtual CD.

    Since we only start the virtual machine "Ubuntu 9.10" by clicking on the "Start" at the top left of the window. This will start the virtual machine and start the installation of Ubuntu from the CD-ROM we have defined. The rest is a standard installation of Ubuntu and leave as an exercise for those who want to install it.

    The same procedure explained for "Ubuntu 9.10" can be used to install other virtual machines. After a few facilities we have available in our system, "Ubuntu 9.10", "Windows XP", "DOS / Windows 3.1", "FreeBSD" and "Solaris". To finish just say that you do not forget to run the menu "Devices-> Install applications 'Guest Additions'" in each virtual machine after install and boot the operating system for each.

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    Re: Install virtual machine with Virtual Box in Ubuntu

    If You want to Install Virtual Machine with the Virtual Box in Ubuntu then You have to Install the Virtual Box then you have to put your Ubuntu CD in your CD drive then It will ask You for the Installation then You have to Choose the Path of the Virtual Box now Your Virtual Box have Operating system like Ubuntu or which you install in it.Now you can use Ubuntu as Your Virtual Machine.
    All the Best

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