Comments on: Installing Ubuntu in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 Host

By: Oak

Oak — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:03:33 +0000

LOVE IT. THANK YOU!
for guest addtional section, I got an error with headers and google and found this. hope this helps someone

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49283

the last comment helped

By: ubuntu guy

ubuntu guy — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:19:36 +0000

Nice post friend

By: Crockets!!

Crockets!! — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:40:19 +0000

One problem I ran into that wasn’t addressed here, or at least I didn’t see it here. Before installing the Linux operating system on the virtual machine check your bios and make sure you have virtualization enabled. I didn’t and got some kind of funky message saying I got the wrong kind of Linux for my kind of processor. Tried two different versions before finding that fix. Also, if you found this because you are putting steam on your virtual machine. Install wine, winetricks, then open firefox inside your VM. Navigate here, https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux Scroll down to the install link and click on it. This should start the download of steam and open the installer in winetricks. It installs the client and creates a shortcut on the desktop. Don’t bother with anything that says to open the terminal unless you really are looking forward to a headache. Thanks for the very informative tutorial. Can’t believe I didn’t do this sooner. Won’t be long before Windows 7 is my VM

By: Incognito Nowhereman

Incognito Nowhereman — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:46:42 +0000

Slight modifications:

in /etc/rc.local enter:
sudo mount -t vboxsf vshare /mnt/hostShare
Note: you also need to sudo vi /etc/rc.local, of course to edit the file.

Passing clipboard back and forth works for me, I just did for last line..

To share a host directory:
sudo mount -t vboxsf vshare /mnt/hostSharev
Assuming your directory is called vshare in the Shared Folders tab of the Devices VirtualBox menu of your Virtual Machine and your /mnt/hostShared exists in Ubuntu (and is what you want).

Levels:
Host: Windows 7 Home Premium, last Microsoft updates
Guest: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
VirtualBox 4.1.8.r75467

That’s about it, pretty close Deb, good work!

Incognito Nowhereman

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By: Hiro Protagonist

Hiro Protagonist — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:43:19 +0000

With a physical Ubuntu box you can set up samba sharing to share things between windows and ubuntu. Samba isn’t the fastest but its usually good enough.

Thanks for the write up.

By: mikesmithers

mikesmithers — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:19:38 +0000

Gerhard,

the only way I know of doing this is to put the Ubuntu documents in the directory that it shares with Windows. You should then be able to see them in the Windows host.

HTH

Mike

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:35:07 +0000

Hi there, is there a way to access Ubuntu documents on the Windows machine?