Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.4

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Published on Friday, 13 May 2011 03:02

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Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 11.4

VirtualBox is a good tool to virtualize one computer or an entire environment. With Ubuntu 11.4 you can install VirtualBox 4.0.4 from the default repository. Having VirtualBox in the repository makes installation really easy. I am going to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu so I have a few demo computers to test on. This will help me design my blogs and help people to have a simulator environment as I do.

VirtualBox website is http://www.virtualbox.org/. The VirtualBox site is a good resource. VirtualBox was designed by innotek GmbH, then purchased by Sun Microsystems. VirtualBox supports all types of Operating Systems, thus making for a good development system. In 2007 the open source version of VirtualBox was released—VirtualBox OSE.

Let get to the installation of VirtualBox 4.0.4 on Ubuntu 11.4

• To open a terminal just click >applications>accessors>terminal.

Now lets update the system so we all the newest applications

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade

To install VirtualBox on Ubuntu all you need to do is type:

• sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-qt

After you hit enter you will soon see the following question:

• Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

At this point you should be able to use VirtualBox by typing VirtualBox or clicking >applications>accessors>VirtualBox

If there are any questions, post on our forum at forum.the-server-admin.com or comment below.

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