VirtualBox Install

[Lisa Kachold]

Gee!

What is your hardware?
Are you running on X86_64 under OpenSolaris or using Sun hardware?

How many concurrent Virtual's do you run at a time?
How do you start up a Virtual box upon reboot without Human Intervention?

On 2/8/10, Trent Shipley <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
> A while ago I wrote that I wanted to run some Windows OSes as virtual
> machines under Linux.  I wound up selecting Sun's VirtualBox.
>
>
> Ubuntu knew about the VirtualBox package so installation was trivial.
> Installing the guest OSes was also pretty easy.  I did learn that if you
> made a mistake on the path offered by the installation wizard, you had
> to clean up some files by hand, and since I was dealing with MS
> activation, I basically had one shot to get it right.
>
>
> Installing Win7 Ultimate was a cinch.
>
>
> I had problems installing the purportedly OEM copy of XP Pro I got from
> a small vendor on Amazon.  MS Windows Genuine Advantage said it was
> probably counterfeit. I took a chance that the offer to buy another
> "genuine" copy of XP Pro wasn't phishing (why oh why didn't I check for
> a secure connection and a certificate.  I checked later.  The
> certificate had expired a year ago.)  After a week I got a CD,
> presumably from Microsoft.  I did a clean install with the new disk
> without incident.   I just need to delete the potentially bogus XP Pro
> guest.
>
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