vmware

I recently got a Macbook Pro. But I can no longer use VMWare on Mac to run Linux because VMWare charges for its Fusion player on Mac. Fortunately, I can use VirtualBox which is free for all platforms.

Here are the steps to get Ubuntu 8(Guest) up and running in VirtualBox on Windows(Host):

1. Download the ISO version of Ubuntu 8
2. Open VirtualBox. Create a new image. I gave it a 16GB virtual disk.
3. Attach the Ubuntu ISO image as cd-rom
4. make sure the boot sequence starts with cd-rom
5. start the virtual machine. It should go into Ubuntu's installation screen.

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