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* Enable ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiDynamic_Kernel_Module_Support Dynamic Kernel Module Support]'' to deal with Kernel Upgrade |
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== Creating a New Virtual Machine == |
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* To boot a Virtual Machine directly from a physical disk partitions, check the page on '''[http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk raw disks]'''. |
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Revision as of 23:40, 24 March 2010
Installation
Reference instructions can be found here:
- Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list (here for Ubuntu Karmic): deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free
- Add the Sun public key for apt-secure, then install
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1
The group vboxusers is created during installation.
- Users of the VirtualBox must be member of that group. New users can be added with
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username
- The daemon for the network interfaces will be assigned to that group.
VirtualBox requires a kernel module vboxdrv.
- The default location of the module is given by setting KDIR=[fullpath] in file /etc/default/virtualbox.
- The kernel module can be compiled with
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
- Enable Dynamic Kernel Module Support to deal with Kernel Upgrade
Creating a New Virtual Machine
- To boot a Virtual Machine directly from a physical disk partitions, check the page on raw disks.