Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

VirtualBox the upcoming counterpart of VMware. This new peace of software has reached version 2 and is quite quick. To install this in Ubuntu or any other debian look-a-like you may go to the download section on the site and get the info you need to install this in your repository.

Pick one of the list below which matches your installation. You also might want to install dkms to make sure your host kernel module is properly updated if the linux kernel changes. (this is only available on Ubuntu)

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.0

Follow the steps and your installation is complee and you are ready to go.

USB

To use USB in your virtualmachine. Put the following line into your /etc/fstab.

usbfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  auto  0  0

Reboot and go!