Sunday, April 27, 2008

Virtualbox for windows running UBUNTU linux 8

Point 1: Need to install the guest additions. Start the guest OS and in Virutalbox menu, go to device -> Install Guest Additions. Open a terminal window and cd to /media/cdrom0 and run sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run. Restart the guest OS.

Point 2: Open a new terminal window, run sudo displayconfig-gtk, select the graphic card driver to be "vboxvideo" and change the screen model to "LCD Panel NNNNxNNNN". And now you can set the screen resolution to be the one you want.

Point 3: To enable shared folder access, go to device -> shared folders to add the folder to be shared, restart the guest OS, and run command "sudo mount -t vboxsf sharename mountpoint"

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