After faced few issues and seen similar stories on web regarding Gnome shell in Fedora 16 with Oracle VirtualBox, I decided to publish this guide. This step by step guide shows how to install Fedora 16 in local virtual hard disk, install guest additions and get gnome shell inside VM. If you are interested in [...]

The latest Ubuntu 11.10 is released few weeks ago and having plenty of good reviews with claiming that this is the ever best Ubuntu release. I do not use Ubuntu OS, but whenever latest versions are released, I install them on VirtualBox or VMware to update my blog. Here is the small guide about install [...]

Whenever you upgrade the latest VirtualBox release, you should consider to upgrade the extension pack also manually. The normal program installation package is not having extension pack, therefore you have to manually download the correct version and install. Here is the link to download Oracle VirtualBox extension Pack 4.1 and 4.1.2 from official site and how to [...]

Cloning is one of the important feature every virtualization software must have. Oracle VirtualBox started to carry this feature from latest major release 4.1. This article explains about clone especially linked clone in VirtualBox and how to clone virtual machines. Oracle’s powerful open source desktop virtualization software VirtualBox came up with new features in major [...]

The latest Gnome 3 shell in Fedora 15 is supported from VirtualBox 4.0.8 and later versions. Gnome 3 is a different and enhanced desktop environment which gives totally new working experience with applications and tools in fedora OS. I had problem in getting  this latest shell inside VirtualBox virtual machine, but later found out the [...]

VirtualBox is one of my favorite desktop virtualization software. Oracle is getting ready to release the next major updated version of this product, as of today it is in beta stage but having some cool features. You want to know what’s new in VirtualBox 4.1.0?, keep reading. The free and open source software VirtualBox 4.1.0 [...]

You must be aware of the updated version of desktop virtualization software VirtualBox 4.0.10, have you updated the extension pack to get the additional features?. Extension pack helps in USB 2 device support on guests, remote desktop protocol (RDP) to virtual machines and PXE ROM network boot. Since USB 2 support is very essential for [...]