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VirtualBox4 Beta1 comes with support for copying files into the guest file system

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Software

Oracle announced that VirtualBox4 Beta1 is available, this beta release and not advised to use it in a production machine, this release comes with major changes, New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see the manual for more information, Open … Continue reading

Opensuse Building VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules failed | SOLVED

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : When  installing Virtualbox Guest additions , i `m getting this error   (in Opensuse 11.3 and  opensuse 11.4) :

VirtualBox 3.2.12 is released | PPA Ubuntu

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Software

VirtualBox 3.2.12 is released, This is a maintenance release that comes to fix some important known bugs , also some new features were added. Read the changeLog.

Virtualbox : Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel | Solved | FAQ

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : I am trying to install  vbox  guest additions in centos  5,5, while installing i got this error : Virtualbox : Makefile:23: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel  

Install VirtualBox via PPA repository in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat | Added support to X.Org Server 1.9

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Ubuntu

Few days ago  VirtualBox 3.2.10 was released, this release comes with many improvements and bug fix, also there is a good news for Maverick meerkat users, this release comes with support X.Org Server 1.9, this mean that you got no problem … Continue reading

line 72: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission denied

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question: How to  solve  this error  when trying to run virtualbox in terminal?

Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module in Fedora13

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : I installed virtualbox in fedora from repository using the command this: wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo; sed -i “s,enabled=0,enabled=1,g” /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo When i tried to setup the virtualbox, i got this error: [root@unixmen-F13 Downloads]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv   setupStopping VirtualBox kernel module                          [  … Continue reading

VirtualBox 3.2 is released! With PPA repository for Ubuntu Lucid, debian Lenny and LinuxMint9 Isadora

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Announced Today by Oracle the release of VirtualBox 3.2. Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references were changed without impacting compatibility. This release of  VirtualBox comes with … Continue reading

Install VirtualBox via PPA repository in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

VirtualBox 3.1.8 was released early this week by Oracle, This is a maintenance release so many items were fixed and/or added ( Read the Changelog). You can install VirtualBox in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx by adding the non free repositories … Continue reading

How-To: Clone or Copy a Virtual Disk in Virtualbox

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

This problem happened to me  when i tried to duplicate disks on Virtualbox , i wanted to share this information with you so if you got this issue you know how to resolve it:)