Oracle vm virtualbox?

Question

I have installed Oracle vm Virtualbox onto my current computer. Windows 7 64 bit. I want to create ubuntu 11.10 as guest os. THe ubuntu files are on my flashdrive and I have copied them to my c drive. It somewhat worked the first time through but it said fatal error cannot find files. I then deleted what I had set up as far as the ubuntu part of it and decided to start anew. Now whenever I set it up it says " Fatal error: No Bootable medium found! System halted." I am at an impass. I am a beginner but am trying to learn so please use layman terms or give me a way to understand what you are talking about.

Answer 1

You've got to go into the setting and mount the iso image onto the virtual machine. Manuals are your friend.

Answer 2

Click New to make a new virtual machine.



Name it and select Linux for the operating system , version Ubuntu.



Select how much memory you'd like.



Create new virtual drive around 15-20 GB is good .... click Finish



Before you start up the VM go to settings storage



The IDE Controller has to be linked to the ubuntu.iso so it can boot that iso and you can install it onto the virtual drive you made earlier.



Some tips...



You'll need 3d acceleration turned on, it is located in the settings >>Display >> Video >> click the "Enable 3d Acceleration" and also give the "Video Memory" around 128mb for the Ubuntu Unity desktop environment to work.



If you have a multi core CPU boost the number of processers to 2



Command to share a folder in linux guest is (open a terminal)



sudo mount -t vboxsf Documents /home/USERNAME/Shared



Where Documents is the name of my windows folder I shared in the Virtualbox Settings

USERNAME = the name you chose

/home/USERNAME/Shared is a folder named Shared in my home folder



If you get lost with Ubuntu and Unity, try Mint with the Cinnamon desktop, it is my preferred linux distro at the moment

Answer 3

Hi there,

You can get for free VirtualBox here http://bitly.com/WhvdB8



It is the best solution if you need to run different operative system on your computer.

It works very well.

Hope it helps.

Answer 4

First,are you particular that ur disk works? 2d . i take advantage of digital container purely approximately on a daily basis , and that errors is fairly weird and wonderful, did you get the final version of digital container ? . my version is 4.a million , in the experience that your version is older, then uninstall it and improve the hot version