Russell Gadd wrote:
> Jon Wilks wrote:
>> Jack Knight wrote:
>>
>>> Russell Gadd wrote:
>>> Or of course my personal favourite, VirtualBox. It's free, does
>>> multiple
>>> snapshots, has lots of tweakable options and IMHO is faster than
>>> VMWare.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I agree on VirtualBox. I have found it to be very usable. The
>> following link was useful when setting it up.
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
>>
>> Jonny.
>>
>>
> Jonny,
>
> I decided to give Virtualbox a go and followed your link to install on
> Ubuntu 7.10. I used the steps specified for Gutsy but this failed at
> the first hurdle: Running the "install" command I got the message:
>
> FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
> * Modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
>
> However dmesg had nothing in it relating to this
>
> I posted a more complete description of my problem in a Virtualbox
> forum here
> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=5082&sid=207d8269d486283119faafcbebfc4c16
>
> but so far no-one has responded to help.
>
> Did you follow this recipe? Any clues you could give would be
> appreciated.
Hi Russell,
Is there a reason why the version within the Ubuntu repositories is not
suited to purpose?
There may be in which case please ignore the question. I used Synaptic
to install Virtualbox on two machines here and have yet to encounter
problems with the installation. I do have a problem regarding USB
devices not showing up within the VMs which I may put into another
thread, but ironically it appears this may be one reason why one might
want to install the package provided by Virtualbox rather than the
version from the Ubuntu repositories, from what I have googled.
Sean
