How to install Ubuntu 11.04 in VirtualBox
by Eirik Tenold
I wanted to have a clean environment where I could try different things and decided to install VirtualBox on my desktop.
To install the host software under Ubuntu was easy. Just a simple apt-get command:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
The installation of the guest OS was easy enough, just point and click. But when I tried to install the guest additions (so that the guest OS could access folders on the host) the guest OS would not boot up again. This happened a few times and the result was reinstall the guest OS. Next time I will remember to take a snapshot just after the install finishes.
After a simple google search, I found a blog entry on how to install the guest additions via apt-get:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils