You have the right steps. Install your desktop. Installing VirtualBox will likely not be a part of the first step, but once it is installed, you can set it up so that you get updates the same as
VirtualBox installs a kernel module, so you may have to have kernel-headers package installed for it to work properly. It's pretty straightforward. I'll share one lesson I learned when getting VirtualBox running on a new AMD 64 bit system: The virtual machines would not boot properly (linux guests were segfaulting, if memory serves) until I checked an ACPI setting in the motherboard configuration section of that VM. Cheers, Steve On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Mathew D. Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to try running XP inside of VirtualBox, but I am having > difficulty visualizing the process of building the system. Please set me > straight if I have this wrong. > > 1. Install latest Ubuntu desktop system (my favorite linux flavor). > 2. Install VirtualBox (as part of step 1?). > 3. Install XP. > > Part of my motivation is to learn about using virtualization. The other part > is that I have to use XP only applications, and I am hoping that > virtualization will allow me to perform most of my administration using > linux (e.g. file systems and backup). In other words, I want a primary linux > systems with on demand access to XP apps, without having a separate XP > system. It will be fun to see if this works. > > Mat > -- Steve McCarthy [email protected] [email protected]
