Tag Archives: VirtualBox

How to install Guest Additions for Ubuntu Guest in Virtualbox

Posted on March 11, 2010 by SoCRaT

Guest Additions are very useful in VirtualBox (or any other virtualization software in general), it installs virtual adapters for your hardware and enables the following: Better graphics support (very useful when resizing the desktop or changing the guest’s resolution) Folder … Continue reading →

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Temporary workaround for virtualbox not able to unmount CD/DVD drive or ISO image

Posted on January 8, 2010 by SoCRaT

Just don’t use  a dynamic expanding harddisk and the problem is gone!!

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How to solve the problems of "Oracle Enterprise Linux" in virtualbox

Posted on January 6, 2010 by SoCRaT

Not able to boot: Just press escape during the grub loading process and choose the second kernel :), that’s it! If you want it to be persistent to avoid doing that at every startup, just go edit the “/boot/grub/grub.conf” and … Continue reading →

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Access shared-folder in Ubuntu host from Ubuntu guest in Virtualbox

Posted on December 29, 2009 by SoCRaT

This is the scenario that you run Ubuntu as your host operating system and Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox, and that you want to access a specific folder from Ubuntu host. First you have to make sure that have install Guest … Continue reading →

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Install Moblin 2.1 in Virtualbox

Posted on December 9, 2009 by SoCRaT

I faced a problem while trying to test the new release of Moblin (2.1) which is an OS primarily designed for netbooks. When trying to boot from the live image, I get an error message stating that the kernel is … Continue reading →

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