Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu | Linux Today

Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Apr 17, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial shows how you can install InnoTek’s VirtualBox on
a Ubuntu desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest
operating systems (‘virtual machines’) such as Linux and Windows
under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing
VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some
distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources
that are released under the GPL. This article will show both
ways.

“Currently VirtualBox supports only 32bit host and guest
operating systems…”

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