VirtualBox 4.0.6: up to 256 kernels, and improved support for Unity

Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.0.6 ,The latest version of its virtualization application available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and is the third stable update VirtualBox 4.0.

According to the developers, this update integrates more than 50 changes and correctionsIncluding those affecting VirtualBox 4.04, which added support for guest machines with Ubuntu 11.04.

so far,

VirtualBox repository for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

VirtualBox is a virtualization software you can install other operating systems within operating systems. It currently supports operating systems install GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris and others.

To install on any version of Ubuntu to natty:Note: Ubuntu based distributions that do not retain their codename as LinuxMint change `lsb_release -cs` by the version in which the

VirtualBox Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Repository, Finally Ready

The VirtualBox repository (contrib) for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal has finally been created today.

Besides the new Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal repository, there's also a new version: VirtualBox 4.0.6 which adds support for X.Org Server 1.10 final (for Guest Additions), some Linux Kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes as well as a fix for slow Linux guests with recent Kernels.

See the complete VirtualBox 4.0.6 changelog.

Install VirtualBox 4 in Ubuntu

Add the VirtualBox repository and install the latest VirtualBox 4.0.6 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or 10.04 Lucid Lynx using the commands below (before this, make sure you remove any VirtualBox 3.x version you may have installed):

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0

For some additional features like USB 2.0 support, you'll have to install the VirtualBox Extension Pack which you can download from HERE. Once downloaded, double click the Extension Pack and it should open with VirtualBox and you can then easily install it. If that doesn't work for you, Open VirtualBox and go to File > Preferences and on the Extensions tab, click the "add" button on the right (first blue diamond) and browse for the VirtualBox extension pack.


And a note for those who use an older Ubuntu version and want to try out the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal in VirtualBox: to install the Guest Additions in Ubuntu Natty (guest), all you have to do is run the following command:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

If you're not using Ubuntu, you can get VirtualBox from its download page.

Thanks to Chimera Revo for the news!

VirtualBox Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Repository, Finally Ready

The VirtualBox repository (contrib) for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal has finally been created today.

Besides the new Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal repository, there's also a new version: VirtualBox 4.0.6 which adds support for X.Org Server 1.10 final (for Guest Additions), some Linux Kernel 2.6.39-rc1 fixes as well as a fix for slow Linux guests with recent Kernels.

See the complete VirtualBox 4.0.6 changelog.

Install VirtualBox 4 in Ubuntu

Add the VirtualBox repository and install the latest VirtualBox 4.0.6 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or 10.04 Lucid Lynx using the commands below (before this, make sure you remove any VirtualBox 3.x version you may have installed):

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0

For some additional features like USB 2.0 support, you'll have to install the VirtualBox Extension Pack which you can download from HERE. Once downloaded, double click the Extension Pack and it should open with VirtualBox and you can then easily install it. If that doesn't work for you, Open VirtualBox and go to File > Preferences and on the Extensions tab, click the "add" button on the right (first blue diamond) and browse for the VirtualBox extension pack.


And a note for those who use an older Ubuntu version and want to try out the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal in VirtualBox: to install the Guest Additions in Ubuntu Natty (guest), all you have to do is run the following command:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

If you're not using Ubuntu, you can get VirtualBox from its download page.

Thanks to Chimera Revo for the news!

Download Chrome OS Ready To Use Nightly Builds (For VirtualBox, VMware And USB Drive)

Hexxeh has made vanilla Chrome OS VirtualBox, VMware and USB drive images available for download so you can easily try out the latest Chrome OS nightly builds without having to compile it yourself.

In my test, using Chrome OS in VirtualBox was painfully slow because you can't enable graphical acceleration so it's best to use the USB images. But if you must run it in VirtualBox (if for instance you can't boot of an USB), it would be ideal to assign it around 2 GB of RAM. If you think that's too much for a OS-Browser, you'd be surprised how much RAM Chrome (the browser) uses for some people.

To use the Chrome OS .vdi in VirtualBox, download it from HERE, extract it, then in VirtualBox click on "New", enter a name and under "Operating system" select "Linux" and for "Version" enter "Ubuntu":

On the "Virtual Hard Disk" step, select "Use existing hard disk" and browse for the ChromeOS .vdi file:

You're now ready to run Chrome OS in VirtualBox.


Download vanilla Chrome OS VirtualBox, VMware and usb image nightlies.

Thanks to Chrome Story for the heads up!

Get Your USB Drives To Work With VirtualBox (Ubuntu Host)

To get your USB drives to work with VirtualBox when using Ubuntu as a host, you need to add your user to the vboxusers group. Please note that this doesn't work with VirtualBox OSE, so you'll need to install VirtualBox 4.0.x from its repository.

To add your username to the vboxusers group in Ubuntu, go to System > Administration > Users and Groups, click on "Manage groups", scroll down to the "vboxusers" group and click "Propreties", then check the box next to your username and click OK:

Then log out and log back in, plug in an USB stick (or whatever you may need), start a VirtualBox machine and select the USB device in the lower right. Using this, the USB device won't be accessible each time you start the VM.

To have an USB device available each time you start a VM, open VirtualBox, select a VM, click on "Settings" and on the USB tab, click the "+" icon on the right - this will display a list of your USB devices which you can add to your VM.

If you want to set up USB for VirtualBox manually, you can run the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/group

Then search for the "vboxusers" group and add your username to that line, like so:

vboxusers:x:125:andrei

"andrei" is my username - replace it with yours. Then save the file, log out and see above on how to add an USB drive to VirtualBox.

Install VirtualBox 4.0.4 on Ubuntu [deb]

VirtualBox has been updated to vesion 4.0.4

To install or upgrade in Ubuntu you can use the deb package for your version:Ubuntu 10.10 (“Maverick Meerkat”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (“Lucid Lynx”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 9.10 (“Karmic Koala”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (“Hardy Heron”) i386 | AMD64
for other distributions, there are packages in their download page for Linux host.

How To Resize A VirtualBox 4.0+ Hard Disk (.VDI), The Easy Way [Quick Tip]

VirtualBox 4.0 got a very cool new feature that allows you to easily resize a hard disk in just a few seconds. Previously, you had to install Gparted to do this and the procedure was quite slow.

In VirtualBox 4.0 (see how to install VirtualBox 4.0.x in Ubuntu), to resize a VirtualBox hard disk image (.VDI) firstly locate the folder where the .vdi you want to resize is located - this should be under ~/VirtualBox VMs or ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks. Then open a terminal, navigate to that folder ("cd /FOLDER/PATH") and run the following command to resize the .VDI:

VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB

Where YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi is the VirtualBox hard disk you want to resize and SIZE_IN_MB is the new virtual hard disk size, in megabytes. For example, the following command will resize the VirtualBox hard disk called "natty.vdi" to 12000 megabytes:

VBoxManage modifyhd natty.vdi --resize 12000

That's it! The process takes just a few seconds and you should now have a resized VirtualBox hard disk.

How To Clone (Copy) A VirtualBox .vdi [Quick Tip]

If you want to use an existing VirtualBox hard disk (.vdi) for multiple machines you can't just copy the .vdi as you can't have multiple virtual hard disks with the same UUID on the same computer. But luckily you can easily clone an existing VirtualBox hard disk - here's how to do it.

Firstly you'll need to know the path to the .vdi you want to clone. These are usually under ~/VirtualBox VMs (for the latest VirtualBox 4.0) or ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks.

Once you find the .vdi you want to clone, simply run the following command in a terminal:

VBoxManage clonevdi /path/to/existing.vdi new.vdi

In the above command, replace "/path/to" with the path to the existing .vdi you want to clone and "new.vdi" with the name of the new VirtualBox hard disk.

That's it! You can now use VirtualBox to create a new Virtual Machine with the newly created virtual hard disk.

Update: here's an easier way of doing this (thanks to 1dollar for the tip!): simply create a copy of a .vdi and run the following command to change its UUID:

VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid copiedfile.vdi

The best way to access to virtual machines of VirtualBox

For those who use VirtualBox is a bit cumbersome having to open and close the application every time we use one of the virtual machines we have installed.
indicator-virtualbox just all this and gives us the ability to access a virtualized machines quickly and efficiently, without running VirtualBox for it. Also has a nice logo Mono style that looks great with the new issues of Ubuntu and many

How To Test Ubuntu 11.04 With Unity In VirtualBox 4.0

Great news for those who want to try out the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal with the Unity interface without booting a CD or Live USB - Unity now works in the latest VirtualBox 4.0. All you have to do to get Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity to work in VirtualBox 4.0 is to enable 3D Acceleration and obviously, install the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Read on!

Get Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity working in VirtualBox 4.0

1. Firstly, install VirtualBox 4.0.x. For installation instructions, see our previous article: Install VirtualBox 4.0.x (Stable) In Ubuntu, Via Repository

2. Download the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal daily live ISO from HERE.

3. In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine, go to its settings and on the Display tab, check the "Enable 3D Acceleration" box.

4. Now you'll need to install Natty in VirtualBox. When done, start it and proceed to step 5.

5. Install the VirtualBox Guest Additions in Natty: open a terminal (in Ubuntu Natty that runs in VirtualBox) and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

When done, restart the virtual machine and Ubuntu 11.04 with the Unity interface should be working!

Extra tip: if Unity defaults to a classic "windows 95-ish" theme when it starts, run the following command to get the default theme back (thanks to Phillip Daddy for the tip!):

killall -9 gnome-settings-daemon && gnome-settings-daemon

Update April 4th, 2011: the initial instructions for installing the Guest Additions stopped working a while back so I've updated the post with new instructions that work with the latest xserver / kernel 2..6.38 (I've tested it with the latest Ubuntu 11.04 daily ISO / VirtualBox 4.0.4-70112). Thanks to Andrei Sun for the tip!

Thanks to Singh for the tip!

Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0, care license change

Sun bought the company and its entire catalog takes a few months time updating VirtualBox, It seems clear that at least in this section the template and the team responsible for the development of virtualization still very active.

Now is the announcement of the availability of VirtualBox 4.0, A desktop virtualization application for different platforms to x86 architecture which remains one of

Install VirtualBox 4.0.x (Stable) In Ubuntu, Via Repository

VirtualBox 4.0 has been released today. We've already covered what's new in VirtualBox 4.0.x when the first beta came out so check out that post or the changelog for more info.

As you probably know, starting with VirtualBox 4.0.x some features are now available separately, in an extension pack. Here are the step-by-step instructions on installing both VirtualBox and the Extensions Pack in Ubuntu.

Install VirtualBox 4.0 in Ubuntu

1. Remove any previous VirtualBox version you had installed.

Presuming you were using version 3.2, you would have to run the following command:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-3.2

2. Add the VirtualBox contrib repository and install VirtualBox 4.0.x (currently 4.0.4):

VirtualBox 4.0.x (currently 4.0.4) is no longer available in the non-free component of the VirtualBox Ubuntu repository but in contrib.

Add it and install VirtualBox using the following commands:

sudo -v
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0

3. Download the Extension Pack.

For USB 2.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards support, you'll also have to install an Extension pack which you can download from HERE.

4. Install the VirtualBox Extension pack.

Open VirtualBox 4.0.x and go to File > Preferences and on the Extensions tab, click the "add" button on the right (first blue diamond) and browse for the VirtualBox extension pack you've downloaded in step 1. That's it!

Thanks to gericom for the Contrib repository tip!

How to install VirtualBox 4 beta on Ubuntu

It is obvious that at some point virtualbox will be in the repositories for all distros, but meanwhile let's see how to install the beta of VirtualBox, just out in ubuntu.
Virtualbox 4 NewsAudio support for HD Audio Intel boards
The windows Aditions Guest is automatically update the virtualbox update
Support for more than 2GB of RAM in 32-bit hosts
Limiting the CPU allocated to virtual machines

How To Install VirtualBox 4.0 Beta In Ubuntu

VirtualBox 4.0 beta was released today with some major changes. The biggest change is that some functionality has moved into a separate package (such as the USB 2.0 support, RDP server and more).

But that's not all: VirtualBox 4.0 beta also comes with a redesigned user interface, settings/disk file layout for VM portability, support for more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts, support for the Intel ICH9 chipset, support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO bandwidth, asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images, support for resizing VDI and VHD images and more. For a complete list of new features, see the release announcement.

News via h-online.

Install VirtualBox 4.0 beta in Ubuntu

Before installing VirtualBox 4.0, please remember it's still in beta so expect to find bugs (so use it at your own risk)!

1. To install VirtualBox 4.0 beta, remove any older VirtualBox version you may have installed on your system:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox*

2. In Ubuntu 32bit only, you'll also have to install libstdc++5:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

3. Download VirtualBox .deb packages from HERE - install the file appropriate for your Ubuntu version / architecture.

At this point, running a virtual machine won't work - you need the VirtualBox extensions pack (see below).

4. Download the VirtualBox extensions pack. Then, once you've made sure you've closed all open VirtualBox windows, simply double click the "Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.0.0_BETA1-68572.vbox-extpack" file you've just downloaded - this should install the VirtualBox extensions pack and open VirtualBox.

Update: for a repository, see: Install VirtualBox 4.0.x (Stable) In Ubuntu, Via Repository

Install VirtualBox 3.2.12 in Ubuntu with deb package

VirtualBox, the excellent virtualization software has been updated to version 3.2.12
To install or upgrade Ubuntu you can use the deb package for your version:Ubuntu 10.10 (“Maverick Meerkat”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (“Lucid Lynx”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 9.10 (“Karmic Koala”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 9.04 (“Jaunty Jackalope”) i386 | AMD64
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (“Hardy Heron”) i386 | AMD64
for other

Indicator-VirtualBox: Launch Virtual Machines Without Opening VirtualBox [AppIndicator]

Indicator-VirtualBox is a simple yet very useful appindicator which you can use to launch VirtualBox machines without opening VirtualBox. It works with both VirtualBox and VirtualBox-OSE.

Sure, you can create shortcuts to launch VirtualBox machines, but if you constantly create new ones, a way to automatically have shortcuts for all the virtual machines sounds much better and that's what Indicator-VirtualBox is designed to do.

Install Indicator Virtualbox in Ubuntu (Lucid, Maverick and Natty):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-virtualbox

To launch it, press ALT + F2 (or use Synapse) and type: "indicator-virtualbox".

VirtualBox 3.2.10 has been released

Oracle has released a new update to its VirtualBox virtual machine, the 3.2.10.

This is a vesion with updates and maintenance of which was launched last August in 3.2.8.

We have corrected a lot of existing bugs, so that this version is more stable than before.

One of the important things in this new version is support for the newly released Ubuntu 10.10 and for the next release of Fedora 14

Where to download images. VDI to use in Virtualbox

Virtualbox is perhaps most famous existing virtualization software.

Thanks to him, you can try operating systems within your own system, for example, people who use Windows and have virtualized a Linux distro. Or vice versa.

To install an operating system you can download an image virtualbox. Iso and burn to a CD or DVD or you can be. Iso saved, but perhaps one of best ways is to have an image

VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 2 release with feature run Mac OS

Released four days before new version of program virtualbox a beta version 2 After VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 release , and is characterized by its ability to run Macintosh system, and those who do not know virtualbox is a program that allows installation of operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) from within a Linux system or from within Windows without need for Formating and customization.