2009/8/11 James Milligan <[email protected]>: > So you might want to stick to a VM for now, enabling USB passthrough. > Remember to get the download from the website rather than through > apt-get, so you might want to do this before you get to the computer (as > you said that there was no internet, IIRC - it might have been on one of > the forum threads I was reading though).
Sun include a repository for the VirtualBox version that you can get from their website. This means that you'll get updates to VirtualBox when they're available - better than downloading a version from the website and it getting out-of-date, especially for a non-expert user. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads Halfway down the page it talks about the line to add to /etc/apt/sources.list (I actually create a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox, but that's personal preference really). As it recommends at the bottom of that page, install dkms too, otherwise a kernel update will break VB. As others have mentioned, there are other virtualisation systems available, but VB seems to be easy and mostly just works! > > I guess if he's having issues once it's all set up, he could email the > list or me, probably the list though, as I'm not experienced on Linux as > you guys, just the VM running side of it all. > Always worth giving him the name of the list as a resource, even if he doesn't have VM problems! :-) Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
