How to install Virtualbox in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn:
Go to Virtualbox download site and download the binary file compiled for your OS.
Download the binary package for Feisty Fawn from here.
Open a terminal after the download is complete. Go to the folder where you downloaded the file.
Enter the following command to install Virtualbox.
sudo dpkg -i filename (in our case it’s VirtualBox_1.3.8_Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb).
This should install Virtualbox in your system. Once the installation is complete, you can start the Virtualbox by going to Applications -> Systems -> Innotek Virtualbox. Before you start using Virtualbox, go to System -> Administration -> Users and Groups. Click on Manage Groups button on the right. Scroll down until you see vboxusers in the list (see below):
(Manage Users)
Click on Vboxusers and click Properties button on the right. You’ll see a screen as shown below with the list of users. Check the users to whom you want to give access to Virtualbox. Click OK and close the boxes.
(Vboxuser group)
Once you attach the Vboxusers group to the users, change permission to access USB devices. Open a terminal and enter
gksudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules
Change the line that says
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, MODE=”0664″
to
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, MODE=”0666″
Save and reboot your system. Once logged in, start Virtualbox from the menu. You’ll see a screen similar to one shown below. This screen is blank because the default one is selected. You can use either the default one or you can create a new one. I will explain how to create a new one.
(Virtualbox started)
Click on the New button on top left. You’ll see an installation wizard as show below.
(Installation Wizard)
Click next. Enter a name for the virtual machine. I gave WinXP to show it’s Windows XP installation. Select the OS type you want to install. It’s Windows XP in this case. Click Next.
(Name and OS type)
The next screen is where you allocate memory to the virtual machine. This PC has 1GB RAM, so I allocated 512MB to the virtual machine. The more the better, but then it might slow down your Ubuntu installation if your virtual machine memory allocation is more than Ubuntu’s. Click Next.
(Memory Allocation)
The next step allows you to create a virtual hard drive for the virtual OS. You can create a new one or use an existing one, if you had already created one. It’s going to be a new one in my case, so I selected New.
(Hard drive)
It opens another Wizard to allocate hard drive space as shown below. Click Next
(New wizard)
Now you have two options to create a virtual drive. The first option is to dynamically expand the space and the second one is to create a fixed size. If you have enough space, then select the first option. You still have to allocate the maximum space
, but it’ll fill that as it gets filled. You can’t allocate 1GB and think it’ll add more space as it needs. It didn’t work like that for me the first time I created. I created with 2GB and thought it would add more as it needs, but it errored out due to lack of space (it filled the 2GB) even before the SP2 installation could complete. I think it takes more space from the allocated space as it needs. The fixed size image option takes the entire space at one time. I went with the 1st option. Click next after you choose whichever option you want.
(disk option)
Now give a name for the virtual disc image file and select the size you want to allocate. I gave the name as WinXP, so it created a file called WinXP.vid. I allocated 6 GB. Click Next.
(disk size)
Click Finish in the next step to finish the virtual disk creation and Click Finish again to finish the Virtual OS creation.