Good evening,
I’m presently writing this on Ubuntu 9.10 using Virtualbox. To be honest, I got here more or less by luck. First off, how do I get this little screen to maximize, that is fill up the monitor screen like a regular install?
You told me to add this repository: Index of /repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.2. Well, I can’t figure out how to do that. The only ones that I’ve been successful in adding are either the community repositories, or ones that have an URL (http . . . ). But I was sort of ashamed to ask how – tired of being dumb so much of the time.
So I went to software management, filtered, and found and installed the following at one of the main repositories: virtualbox-ose-kmp-default
then add the x11 driver
and guest tools
I also installed virtualbox, itself.
When I restarted, I didn’t see Virtualbox, per se, so I selected “virtualization.” Then I selected something like hypervisor (I can’t look because I’m on Virtualbox now, and if I leave, I might not be able to find it again). So when I selected Hypervisor (or whatever), it began the installation of Xen. As before, I couldn’t get Xen to work, so I uninstalled it.
After I uninstalled Xen, then I saw Virtualbox. I set it up to run Ubuntu 9.04 when I couldn’t get it to mount the 9.10 iso. But then I couldn’t get past the login to save my life. So I uninstalled it, too, and decided to just confess to not knowing how to add the repository you recommended.
When I restarted, however, there was a message box on the screen saying something about Virtualbox. Apparently, the message was pertaining to the Virtualbox that I had originally installed on 11.1. It’s still here following the upgrade.
When I was upgrading, it was taking so long that my screen went black and my desktop was unresponsive. Being used to Ubuntu distribution upgrading, I thought the upgrade was complete and rebooted. As it turned out, I’d aborted in the middle of the upgrade and had to reinstall 11.1 from live DVD. I used the same partitions. As it turned out, all my files were intact following the reinstall. I’d had the GNOME desktop; on the reinstall, I got the KDE desktop – it was sharp. I almost kept it, but had committed myself to the upgrade. So then, I did the zypper dup. Following, I still had all my files intact. So I guess that that’s how the 11.1 Virtualbox survived. But just as I couldn’t find it on 11.1, I didn’t see it following the dup. I guess I’m going to have to take the chance of getting off vb and getting on host.
I’m hazy on how authentic an os this Karmic 9.10 is. What all can I do with it? Should I got to Ubuntu Forums, or am I in the right place since host is 11.2?
May I ask what is the reason you said to “Make sure you have no Virtual Box packages installed from the openSUSE repositories. (?)” Do I need to get rid of my current – not, wait. I didn’t get my current Virtualbox from OPenSUSE, I’m pretty sure I got from somewhere else. I’ll check my browser history to see if I can find out where.
As always, all of your help and directions are very much appreciated. You must be blue in the face by now.
Thank you.
Randall:)
