How to install Virtual machine on ubuntu

You have a lot of options here, if you have a modern processor that supports "intel virtualization technology" or AMD's "Pacifica" then you can use KVM. You can check if it's supported by running this command:

grep -E ‘^flags.*(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo

If you don't have that feature on your CPU then you still have plenty of other options open to you. I use QEMU with the Kqemu acceleration module (recently GPL'd) that is quite fast when running a MS windows guest. You can install it by entering:

sudo apt-get install qemu kqemu-common

There is also a setup tool called qeumulator or qemu-launcher:

sudo apt-get install qemulator qemu-launcher

and see which you prefer.

Other options include XEN although this is significantly harder to set up and start using. There is also the proprietary VMware but I can't reccomend that you use that.

If you need help setting any of these option (excepting VMWare) just let me know.

Alan

Correction, that command to check for hardware virtualisation support should have been:

grep -E '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

I used the wrong quotes in the first reply.

Alan

Or you can install vmware-server following this post:

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/09/26/how-to-install-vmware-server-on-ubuntu-710/