I too run VirtualBox under Ubuntu. On Virtualbox, I run win2k, ecco, quickbooks and quicken. I take great care, to limit my vulnerability to gotchas, so I backup each app's data to an external drive every time I use it. I don't email or web browse from win2k, so I don't even run virus protection. Since I am so careful, vbox has worked perfectly; I've never had to use my backups.
The last time I set this up, my external usb drive wouldn't work on the ubuntu apt-get version, so I downloaded the binary version from virtualbox.org. I've downloaded that a couple of times, and It installs without much trouble. Good Luck. -- Patrick Timlick On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Paul Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:05:37PM -0800, Paul Mullen wrote: > > The VBox GUI is pretty easy to use, and there's also a command-line > > interface. Documentation is good, too. Make sure your host system has > > plenty of RAM. > > > > You'll need the VBox kernel module on your host system. Debian > > provides the source in its own package, which can then be compiled and > > installed via module-assistant. Also, the more RAM you have, the more > > guests you can run simultaneously. > > And here I thought I had been so careful about proofreading my reply. > That should have read: > > The VBox GUI is pretty easy to use, and there's also a command-line > interface. Documentation is good, too. > > You'll need the VBox kernel module on your host system. Debian provides > the source in its own package, which can then be compiled and installed > via module-assistant. > > Make sure your host system has plenty of RAM. The more RAM you have, > the more guests you can run simultaneously. > > More coffee, please. > > -- > Paul > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
