[lug] Virtual Box

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 20:03:58 MDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Louis Miller <veganguy at canadaseek.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
>        Has anyone played around with Virtual Box? I installed it with
> synaptic with Ubuntu. I don't know what button to press, to allow me to
> install the guest OS. I was going to put Open Geu as the guest OS. I looked
> through synaptic. I think I am supposed to install a guest kernel module,
> but I don't understand how that works. I am still relatively new to Linux,
> so if anyone responds, please don't assume advanced knowledge. I installed
> "Virtualbox guest module-386" as the kernel module with synaptic. Thanks!
>

Can't help. I'm a sidux user (luser ?), and vb is installed out of the
box via the standard upgrade script 'smxi'. Whenever the kernel
changes (at least weekly), vb is rebuyilt automagically.


-- 
Collins Richey
 If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
 of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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