Neil Greenwood wrote: > 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 website and it getting out-of-date, especially for a non-expert user.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. > Didn't know that - I'll add that to my own computer as well - it did indeed seem that the last one made me have to recompile the VB kernel (if that makes sense) > As others have mentioned, there are other virtualisation systems > available, but VB seems to be easy and mostly just works! > Certainly out of all of the times I've used it it seems to have worked - my parents think it's slow compared to a native install, but the thing is, the native install crashes! > >> 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. > Replies inline
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