VirtualBox – Window XP virtualized in seamless modality on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
October 24, 2007
This is a screenshot of seamless modality. Cool effect!
Often there are many people that would like to use Windows XP because many software are only for Windows. If you install Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 (Linux) and Windows XP in two divided partition you must reboot your system and choose every time a system to load when boot loader start up. There is a solution to make a unique desktop for both operating system: VirtualBox OSE in seamless modality. There are two version of VirtualBox: OSE and PE. OSE version is opensource, while PE version is free only for personal use. In this post we will use VirtualBox OSE.Step 1: Installation of VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
To install VirtualBox we must uncomment universe and multiverse repository in /etc/apt/sources.list and get package installation with:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
sudo gpasswd -a <YOUR_USER> vboxusers
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
sudo chmod 666 /dev/vboxdrv
Now we can start VirtualBox, make a new virtual machine installing Windows XP.
Step 2: Install addons
When we finish to install Windows XP and our virtual machine starts up, we have to install Guest Addictions. We could find it on main window of our virtual machine. Guest Addiction is an ISO that will be downloaded automatically from Internet. After Guest Addiction installation we have to restart our virtual machine.
Step 3: Use of Guest Addictions
Now we can see new many features. We can resize in realtime our virtual machine, do copy and paste from a system to another. Mouse change is target from a system to another without pressing keyboard buttons. But, the most important feature is Windows Seamless modality. How we can do this job?
… simply trying to press CTRL (right) + SHIFT + L
