Application : VirtualBox-OSE What it is: VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.
Virtualbox Features: This package provides the binaries for the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox. The virtualbox-ose-source package is also required in order to compile the kernel modules needed for virtualbox-ose. A graphical user interface for VirtualBox is provided by the package virtualbox-ose-qt. A feature rich, high performance virtualization software. Install virtualbox-ose: First you need to install the following packages sudo apt-get install libxalan110 libxerces27 wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/virtualbox_1.5.4-27034_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb Once you download the package you have virtualbox_1.5.4-27034_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb file Install.deb file using the following command sudo dpkg -i virtualbox_1.5.4-27034_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb At the time of installation if you have any dependency problems like the following errors Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox. (Reading database … 174459 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking virtualbox (from virtualbox_1.5.4-27034_Ubuntu_gutsy_i386.deb) … dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox: virtualbox depends on libxalan110; however: Package libxalan110 is not installed. virtualbox depends on libxerces27; however: Package libxerces27 is not installed. dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: virtualbox If you see the above error message you can use the following command to install all the required dependencies sudo apt-get -f install This will complete the installation Starting the VirtualBox Graphical User Interface If you want to start Virtualbox GUI use the following command from your terminal(Applications--->Accessories--- >Termianl) VirtualBox -- நன்றி , தஸ்தகீர்.அ Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Works on Linux http://dowithlinux.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
