Do you want to try the beta version of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat?, install it with desktop virtualization software virtualbox without disturbing your existing OS. It’s not recommended to upgrade your existing working Ubuntu OS because of the beta version. So, installing as a VM is good idea check the new Linux features. This post shows how to install Ubuntu 10.10 on VirtualBox 3.2.8 and play around with guest additions installations to increase the screen resolution, you are lucky if it works.  Read more...

This post is a small comparison of  two free desktop virtualization software products Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Oracle VirtualBox 3.2. As I’m running a desktop virtualization blog and having enough of experience with these both products, I’m sharing this from my experience and thoughts. You can leave your comments and suggestions also. Let’s not forget that, ‘VMware Player’ also a free product which is not covered here. So, Virtual PC 2007 vs VirtualBox 3.2, which is the best one?

Before go into detailed comparison, the answer is; it depends on your requirements.  Read more...

Oracle released VirtualBox 3.2.8 few days ago. This is just a maintenance release after 3.2.6. Some of the USB related issues and some more issues fixed in this release. Download VirtualBox 3.2.8 and update now (Windows host) .

The following items were fixed.  Read more...

• VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
• GUI: switch to native file dialogs
• GUI: don’t use native file dialogs on KDE hosts
• 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support

Let’s install the latest version of openSUSE 11.3 on VirtualBox. The good thing is, Guest additions working without installation.  So all full features of VirtualBox guest additions available just right after OS installation.

This small guide shows how to install openSUSE 11.3 on VirtualBox and check the working guest additions.

“ openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.3. openSUSE 11.3 includes new versions of GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, the Linux kernel, and many, many more updates and improvements. In 11.3 you’ll find more than 1,000 open source desktop applications. openSUSE also includes a full suite of server software and a rich selection of open source development tools”

1) Download openSUSE 11.3 ISO here. ( Any difficulties in downloading? leave a comment)  Read more...

Unfortunately Oracle VirtualBox is missing virtual machine cloning tool. If you need to copy or clone a virtual machine without re installing OS and other applications, then you are in trouble with VB.  This post explains how to copy and clone virtual machines in VirtualBox with CloneVDI GUI tool, a third party software.

VMware has great built in cloning tool, allows to make two types of cloning very quickly. Read more about it here.

Earlier I have published a similar post that cab be done in command prompt. It works well with ‘VBoxmanage’ command. I recommend to read the post before continue reading.  Read more...

I’m not going to write or show something very new here. The reading of below combined links will be a good recap of several articles on Sysprobs.com for last one year.

If you have subscribed or become a regular reader of this blog, then I highly recommend to check few links on what you can and can’t do with desktop virtualization.

I got this idea from problogger site, the famous blog for bloggers.

Here are the topics and links

1) My First Post
Network slow in Vista , published on June 2009. I didn’t start this blog with wordpress initially. So, first post format and fonts will be different. The mentioned method to fix windows vista network slowness is really helpful.  Read more...

iBoot is another good boot loader to install Mac OS X on Physical Intel computer or desktop virtualization software Oracle VirtualBox. Follow this method if you failed with EFI Boot loaders or any. This post explains How to iBoot loader with VirtualBox to Install Snow Leopard and upgrade to latest version 10.6.4.

This boot loader looked pretty good and I’m hoping this will work with most of the 32 bit and 64 bit Intel processors, not sure for AMD.

Required Products

1) Oracle VirtualBox latest version

2) iBoot boot loader ( Its is available here)  Read more...

“Android”, the hot word we hear in recent tech world. Its a mobile OS which can be run on normal pc also with desktop virtualization. This post shows simple steps to install android on VirtualBox with pre installed VDI disk.

There for this method will avoid extra time on downloading two ISO files, combine them and install. Just download and import in to VirtualBox and start using.

I’m showing this on VB 3.2.6 with Intel Core2duo Windows 7 32Bit OS.

Here are the simple steps.

1) Download Android Pre Installed VDI for VirtualBox.
(This is a torrent download, Approx 200MB)  Read more...