Virtualisation

Hi,

I recommend following this tutorial for installing VirtualBox inside Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770745&highlight=guide+virtualbox

VirtualBox is an open-source alternative to VMWare.

VirtualBox can be downloaded here: http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

After that, you can install Windows XP inside VirtualBox.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Mark

Aren,

Are not VirtualBox, Virtual Machine Manager and QEMU in the repositories for 8.04.1?
I suggest that you start with VirtualBox as I think its easier to use.
As an alternative, use Virtual Machine Manager along with QEMU.

Regards,
/bs66

Hi bs66,

I am fully aware that there are two versions of VirtualBox, the fully open-source version that is in the Ubuntu repositories, and the binary .deb package that you can download from virtualbox.org.

I have tried both versions of VirtualBox and have to say that I had less problems (ironically) using the binary .deb file in Ubuntu, than with the open-source one. That is why I suggested downloading the binary from the website. I use Virtualbox a lot, but not the open-source version.

Regards,

Mark

Thanks,

I use VMWare to try linux before I installed it, but where do I get the QEMU
item from, is Virtual Box in the Add/Remove applet.

Aren

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Your question #47432 on Ubuntu changed:
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bs66 proposed the following answer:
Aren,

Are not VirtualBox, Virtual Machine Manager and QEMU in the repositories for
8.04.1?
I suggest that you start with VirtualBox as I think its easier to use.
As an alternative, use Virtual Machine Manager along with QEMU.

Regards,
/bs66

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Hi,

Thanks for the answer, you have fixed my problem but I still need the
website for QEMU.

Thanks,
Aren

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Your question #47432 on Ubuntu changed:
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Mark Rijckenberg proposed the following answer:
Hi,

I recommend following this tutorial for installing VirtualBox inside
Ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770745&highlight=guide+virtualbox

VirtualBox is an open-source alternative to VMWare.

VirtualBox can be downloaded here:
http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

After that, you can install Windows XP inside VirtualBox.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Mark

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Hi,

To install qemu, try the following commands:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install qemu

Here is the qemu website:

http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html

Regards,

Mark

Thanks bs66, that solved my question.