Comments on: How to install Virtualbox 2.0.2 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy heron)

By: razzak

razzak — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:34:20 +0000

I am just download .I didn’t how it is work?

Thanks

By: dirn

dirn — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:36:48 +0000

Nice introduction. At least when people look at this post they’ll know that apart from VMWare and VirtualPC, there’s another option available for them

By: &rés

&rés — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:08:44 +0000

It can be done very easily in just one command line. You can see it on http://sliceoflinux.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/anadir-virtualbox-a-los-repositorios-e-instalarlo-en-una-linea/. Don't worry about the language (it's in Spanish) because you just have to copy the command line. I hope it'll help you.

By: DarkY

DarkY — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:09:51 +0000

@ John

To get USB working you have to use the none-ose version of virtualbox. The package which is described in this tutorial is the non-ose version.

But that’s unfortunately not the whole thing. You also have to activate the usbfs system. After this little intervention usb should work.

There is a nice tutorial on http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/VirtualBox/Benutzung#USB-Geraete-verwenden

By: Ferenc Mihailov

Ferenc Mihailov — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:41:19 +0000

I understand you. You just want to help ubuntu users. I like your articles because easy to do them. I think Virtualbox is very important if somebody wants to try other systems. I wish you the best!

Ferenc from Hungary

By: Johny

Johny — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:36:12 +0000

1/ there is a gui to add users in group (system/admin)
2/ you just don’t talk about usb support (not ready in virtualbox)
3/ look in ubuntu wiki, it’s better than your article

By: Bernie

Bernie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:21:43 +0000

VirtualBox is indeed a very useful tool, especially when there is a need to fallback to Windows. Thanks for sharing, not many know of this useful tool.

By: Jayson Rowe

Jayson Rowe — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:03:48 +0000

You said in your post: “Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).”
The version of Virtualbox that you link to is NOT OpenSource - that is the proprietary version provided by Sun. The Open Source Version, virtualbox-ose is in the repositories.

Although the virtualbox-ose package in Hardy is still a 1.x package, 2.0.x is available in Intrepid.

Also, if you DO want the non-opensource version, Sun offers Ubuntu/Debian repositories as well that you can add to your /etc/apt/sources.list (These are listed here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads). This allows you to install (Sun’s Proprietary) VirtualBox with apt-get, aptitude, Synaptics, Adept, etc. It’s listed as “virtualbox-2.0″ once you add the correct repo.