Installation and configuration of virtualbox.

This guide proposes itself to explain with accessible words also to “niubbo” the use of virtualbox, to my opinion one of the best systems than virtualizzazione in circulation. The version of virtualbox is the 1.5.2, while the distro chosen for the installation it is Ubuntu 7,10 (with the opportune sagacities goes on all the distributions well). Via!

Installation

1. To qualify the repository: (from root) I sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list - to insert in the rows these two lines:
   # VirtualBox
   deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian gutsy non-free
2. To import the key of innotek:
   $ wget - q http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc - Or | I sudo apt-key add -
3. To dawn apt:
   $ I sudo apt-get update
4. To install virtualbox and the demanded bookcases:
   $ I sudo apt-get install virtualbox libxalan110 libxerces27

Configuration

1. To assign the customer to the group vboxusers:
   Amministrazione->Utenti and Gruppi->Impostazione customers to cliccare on tab the Management groups therefore to select vboxusers and to cliccare on property therefore sign of dull on the customers who want themselves to be made to belong to vboxusers (root, $USER)
2. To activate the support to peripheral usb:
   I sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh - In these rows to try these lines:
   # Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
   #
   #mkdir - p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
   #domount usbfs “” /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs - obusmode=0700, devmode=0600, listmode=0644
   #ln - s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
   #mount - rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
   To remove # (the comments) unless to the first two lines
3. Editare the /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rule rows:
   I sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules
   To find the following lines:
   # USB devices (usbfs replacement)
   ” Usb_device” SUBSYSTEM==, MODE=” 0664 ″
   To modify them thus:
   # USB devices (usbfs replacement)
   ” Usb_device” SUBSYSTEM==, GROUP=” vboxusers”, MODE=” 0664 ″

Now we are ready launch the configuration of our virtual machine:

• Applicazioni->Strumenti of sistema->Innotek virtualbox;
• New Click on and following the instructions for the allocation of the name, the amount of memory ram and the hard disk. Obviously to beyond the guided procedure it is possible in a successive phase to carry out all the modifications and personalizzazioni of the case.

Updated 11/06/2008

From when I have written this guide are changed a little of things, as an example Innotek has been acquired from Sun, Virtualbox has become Sun xVM VirtualBox, and as soon as has been released version 1.6.2.  In order to install it enough to carry out the download of the binary version (preferibile regarding the OSE for the better support usb, the remote management of the protocol rdp…) for Ubuntu 8,04 from the site of Sun and, from shell launch beautiful a $ I sudo dpkg - the virtualbox_1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb.
To share cartelle, as an example between the host Hardy and the guest winxp, is equally simple; after to have installed virtualbox the Guest additions, and to have settato the folder to share in the menu of virtualbox, it is necessary to open the prompt of the commandos of winxp and typing net use x: \ \ VBOXSVR \ to share, meaning with share the shared folder. To this point in disc x the folder will be mounted to share.
This other smallest modification renders the valid guide also for hardy heron. However, if to the insertion of a usb device this error had to be received: “Device Not permitted to open the USB”, the solution is that of editare the rows fstab (sudo gedit /etc/fstab) aggiungento the following line: the ninth /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46, devmode=664 0 0.
Riavviare the PC or simply I sudo mount - to and here that the support usb is working.

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