VirtualBox -- VMware-like but released under the GPL
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VirtualBox -- VMware-like but released under the GPL
Hi
Got VirtualBox running, had problem with USB
ports but solved it here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341740
But I need access to my serial port to control my Ham radio equipment, any ideas please.
Nick
Got VirtualBox running, had problem with USB
ports but solved it here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341740
But I need access to my serial port to control my Ham radio equipment, any ideas please.
Nick
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Also works in Bianca.scorp123 wrote:Did you try it?Fragadelic wrote:The message you get is simply a permissions issue and that will go away once you log out and log back in.
gdm appears to cache user info so you have to "CTRL-ALT-BKSPC" once back at the login prompt to restart gdm. After that you login and everything works fine.
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Thats the one issue with running things with sudo. Once in a while it writes the config file in your user folder with root permissions.
chown -R ronan:ronan .VirtualBox changes the permissions back to user ronan group ronan for all files and subdirectories under and including .VirtualBox.
-R is the part that does the thing for all the files. If you only want to change the permissions on one file, leave out the -R
chown -R ronan:ronan .VirtualBox changes the permissions back to user ronan group ronan for all files and subdirectories under and including .VirtualBox.
-R is the part that does the thing for all the files. If you only want to change the permissions on one file, leave out the -R
I'm so happy to have found this thread the other day, with all the great instructions for installing VirtualBox. I would like to add one tip that eluded me for awhile, about having VirtualBox find the CD-ROM on Ubuntu/Linux Mint.
It's from this page:
http://liquidweather.net/howto/index.php?id=103
....and the specific quote is:
I should also say hello, as I am new here, and say that I'm loving Linux Mint. It's quite awesome!
It's from this page:
http://liquidweather.net/howto/index.php?id=103
....and the specific quote is:
Actually, the very first time I ran VirtualBox, it did find my CD-ROM and I put in my Windows 2000 disk and it started setting up. But before finishing, everything froze on me entirely. And thereafter, I couldn't get VirtualBox to point to it, until I saw that tip and made the symlink first. So for anyone else who might have a problem, there it is.In addition, you need to make sure that VirtualBox can find your cdrom. By default it expects it to be at /dev/cdrom. However, on *buntu (and maybe other distros) cdroms are found at /dev/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom1 etc. So either create a symlink to /dev/cdrom (as root):
ln -s /dev/cdrom0 /dev/cdrom
or tell VirtualBox where your cdroms are using a system variable:
export VBOX_CDROM='/dev/cdrom0:/dev/cdrom1'
To make this permanent, insert that line in ~/.bashrc.
I should also say hello, as I am new here, and say that I'm loving Linux Mint. It's quite awesome!
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I need some help if possible. I followed your instrauctions and all worked well. I managed to get bridged networking just fine.. that is until I rebooted. I then noticed that I lost tap0 and br0. Is there a way to do this so that it is persistent...?
I need some help if possible. I followed your instrauctions and all worked well. I managed to get bridged networking just fine.. that is until I rebooted. I then noticed that I lost tap0 and br0. Is there a way to do this so that it is persistent...?
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