Diagram of VirtualBox3.1 installation under Ubuntu9.10

This tutorial illustrates how to install SunxVMVirtualBox3.1 in Ubuntu9.10. With VirtualBox, you can create and run a customer's operating system ("Virtual Machine") in a host operating system, such as Linux and Windows. There are two ways to install Virtual: In some release versions, you can use PUELlicense-based pre-compiled binary version, or use the source code released through GPL for installation. This article will show how to install

This tutorial illustrates how to install Sun xVM VirtualBox 9.10 In Ubuntu 3.1. With VirtualBox, you can create and run a customer's operating system ("Virtual Machine") in a host operating system, such as Linux and Windows. There are two ways to install Virtual: In some releases, you can use PUEL license-based pre-compiled binary version, or use the source code published through GPL for installation. This article shows how to install VirtualBox 3.1 in pre-compilation mode.

Since version 2.0, VirtualBox supports both 32-bit and 64-bit host and client operating systems. (If you want to install a 64-bit client operating system, your processor must support hardware virtualization technology, of course, the host operating system must also be 64-bit ).

This document does not provide any type of guarantee! I want to say that this is not the only way to install such a system. There are many ways to achieve this, but this one is what I use. I cannot make any guarantee that this method will be suitable for you!

Install VirtualBox from pre-compiled binary files

First open a Terminal (Applications> Accessories> Terminal ):

Open/etc/apt/sources. list...

Sudo gedit/etc/apt/sources. list

... Then add the VirtualBox Repository:

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Deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free