Setting up shared folders. Transitioning existing partitions.

1. Introduction to Virtual Machining a Windows Guest with VirtualBox Andrew Dougherty Fox Valley Computing Professionals FRDCSA/POSI June 8th, 2009

3. Has Ubuntu packages, probably also packages for other systems

5. Guest(s) :- The virtual machine(s)

6. So for instance if you wanted to run MS Windows on a Linux machine, Windows would be the Guest OS, and Linux the Host OS

8. If you have a 64 bit machine that has virtualization technology, then can run 64 bit Guest OSes

9. Seems to be limited to 1 64 bit Guest running at any time

10. Can run any number of 32 bit Guests (even when your 1 64 Guest is running)

12. Some processors, such as this laptop's, do not have the Virtualization Technology, which limits us to 32bit Guest OSes

15. Complete the Wizard, selecting an amount of RAM preferably less than half the total

16. Create a virtual disk, or if you want to use an actual hard disk, see the section on using an existing partition

17. -> Settings -> CD/DVD Rom -> Host drive or use the Virtual Media Manager -> CD/DVD Images to add an iso image

19. Boot and install Windows on the VM, just like one would normally

20. Installation of guest additions

21. Guest additions will allow you to seemlessly use the VM

23. These are installed by mounting an ISO image as your CD-ROM and installing from there

24. With a Windows guest, it will install video, sound and mouse drivers (possibly more, I don't remember) http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_2.2.4.iso

26. If you want to do Host Interface networking instead of NAT, in your host:

27. Then -> Settings -> Network -> Attached To, and select tap0 #!/bin/sh sudo tunctl -t tap0 -u andrewdo sudo ifconfig tap0 10.0.1.1 sudo tunctl -t tap0 -u <username> sudo ifconfig tap0 10.0.1.1 http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/02/01/how-to-do-seamless-window-integration-with-ubuntu-virtualbox/

29. However, make sure to create the vmdk file inside the ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks directory, as root, and run the VM as root

30. Also there will be an issue with Windows guests booting from different “hardware” than they are used to, so see this: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

32. Create a new VM with Linux guest, having the Virtual Hard Disk and the new partition as primary and secondary Hds

33. Boot linux, and run as root “dd if=/dev/sdXX of=/dev/sdYY”

34. Resize the filesystem to fill the whole partition (somehow, I forget how to)

36. Haven't been able to get 3d to work

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