On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 16:43, James Mansion <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel wrote: >> >> Has anybody else had a problem installing Ubuntu 9.04 >> (ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso) guest with Virtual box 2.2 >> (VirtualBox-2.2.0-45846-OSX.dmg) on MacOS 10.5.6 host? The installer dies >> halfway through the installation with an error saying something like, "there >> was a problem reading from the CD drive, please try cleaning and >> re-installing"... I've got virtual dust! > > I'm running Vista. I first had that with a DVD of 8.10 which I assumed was > flaky, but it happened again when I downloaded Xubuntu 9.04 and tried to go > from an ISO on the hard disk. > > I did get an install, I: > - reduced guest RAM to 512M from 1024M. > - set the IDE controller to the oldest one > > I suspect the IDE emulation myself. > > (Now, you'd think that given the popularity of Ubuntu, this would be noticed > in testing wouldn't you?)
I myself installed XUbuntu 9.04 RC on VBox 2.2 yesterday And today I installed ubuntu-server-9.04 without any hicups. I did my installs with 192Mb of ram to the guest and with the default settings for the rest of the options. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
