Linux

[Denholm]

I wasn't dissing Ubuntu. It's nothing as annoying as Vista. Still burning it in, though.

[pervert]

I wonder how a PS3 would run Aces High? 

[Denholm]

Well, I managed to successfully install Windows Pro SP3 into the virtual machine (Yes, it's on its own partition). I must say, this is great. Although the virtual machine has two minor problems, I like it more than regular Windows. Thanks for the information Ghastly. So far so good.

[Ghastly]

Cool - glad you were able to work through it - we were away this weekend and I didn't see the questions until just now.  And yes, installing it as a VM under VB is what I did.   I do as little as possible in the "host" Linux installation - if I goober up the VM install, it's as easy as restoring the VM file from an earlier version to undo everything I just goofed up.

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[Denholm]

Another question for those who have ventured down this road. For some reason the VM seems to be messing with the Internet Connection. Whenever I'm using XP installed into the VM I get a 1 KB/s connection to microsoft's download center. I'm trying to download some updates for Microsoft Office which is nearly impossible since the connection continually times out. Any hints on what to do to possibly resolve this issue?

[Ghastly]

Hi,

Denholm, I know that some folks have had a ton of trouble using the "pass-thru" networking mode, (where each VM gets it's own IP).  For my purposes, NAT was necessary, and I've had no such trouble.   If you've not done so, try the "NAT" mode.

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[Denholm]

He he he.... That's actually what I was using.

Yet another question. I've been trying to get a USB device to work with the virtual machine. For some reason VirtualBox won't report the USB device to the virtual machine. I've tried setting up USB filters yet so far have been unsuccessful. I will continue tinkering with it yet wanted to know if you already have an answer that that question.

[Ghastly]

That I've not even tried.  Sorry.

[Denholm]

Drat. I'll keep playing with it. Thanks so far.

[Denholm]

Well, for those of you who might be interested. I managed to get it working when I added myself to the vboxusers group using the following terminal command:

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username

Of course you replace, "username" with your Ubuntu user name. I believe a restart is required for the changes to take effect. Also, don't use specific USB filters. Instead, make a blank filter for each USB port available on your system.

After using the method I was able to plug in anything from a mouse to a camera. XP was able to see them all.

[68Wooley]

Another question. Is there an administrative account for Linux? I made a user account via the Ubuntu Installer which automatically grants me administrative privileges. Yet for some reason the, "root" directory is locked claiming I do not have permission to view the it.

Ubuntu - like all Debian based distro's - wants you to use sudo i.e. run an individual command as root rather than switch to root completely. This is a security measure - it basically avoids you forgetting you're logged in as root and doing something unfortunate.

You can switch this off if you really want and then use the more traditional su command, but in two years of daily use, I've yet to find a reason for doing so.

[Denholm]

Alright, the revival of this thread is to ask another simple question.

I installed GRUB onto the system as the boot-agent. How would I go about removing or replacing it so that I can remove Ubuntu and replace it with Mint?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Alright, the revival of this thread is to ask another simple question.

I installed GRUB onto the system as the boot-agent. How would I go about removing or replacing it so that I can remove Ubuntu and replace it with Mint?

Cant say for sure since I havent tried it but I would try just launching the mint setup. You can then choose the same partition where you installed Ubuntu, reformat it and start fresh.

Of course if you cant format then it's a bit more tricky.

[Denholm]

Alright. I was going to try that since I always did that with Ubuntu and it immediately replaced GRUB.

[Denholm]

Wow, this is super-duper frustrating. I really think I just lost my Windows virtual machine by attempting to migrate it. Restore points were removed in an attempt to, "debug" the situation, Any ideas on restoring it? So far my attempts have been met by the Microsoft trademark known as the Blue Screen of Death?