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Hello y'all.

It's time to go back to Linux as Windows is poor at number crunching and I can't use OS X from within Windows.

What distro works well from a Virtual PC? I know Ubutnu doesn't work at all from virtual pc (last time I checked).

EDIT - I just checked and my Virtual PC license has expired. So what is the best way for me to run Linux from within Windows?
 
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virtual pc is free. :confused: but it sucks anyway, they only want you to use microsoft operating systems in it really. and even when it works i find it's very slow....

try vmware server or virtualbox -both also free. much better support for linux guests as they have drivers/mouse integration. :)

i tried ubuntu 7.04 in virtualbox recently and it works perfectly. no messing about. :)
 
Ubuntu runs fine in the free VMWare server. It's pretty much full speed if you've got an Intel CPU with VT.
 
Cheetah Designs said:
Is that after you installed, or in the attempt to?

If the later - try the graphics safe mode?
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It was after I attempted to install. Tried safe mode, no avail. Did text install it worked :)
 
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Cheetah Designs said:
I just installed ubuntu (the one you did) and got the same thing - all you had to do was reset the machine :P

Thats what i did and it fixed it.
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Odd.... I reset it and it came up with the same problem. Then again on safe graphics.
 
OH MY GOSH.

How do I share a folder with Ubuntu through VirtualBox?

I'm tearing my hair out trying to get it to work here :-S

EDIT - I did:

win:
vboxmanage sharedfolder add "Ubuntu" -name "aaa" -hostpath "c:\aaa"

Ubuntu:
sudo mkdir /mnt/aaa
sudo mount -t vboxsf aaa /mnt/aaa


But it is only one way (win --> ubu) :S
 
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Have you tried using Samba? That's what I'd use in a normal Linux/Windows environment cause it's easy to set up and it's reliable... I'm assuming that VirtualBox is compatible with it, but as I've never used it I may be wrong.
 
I've used Ubuntu and Fedora on VPC, works fine tbh!

However you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change colourdepth from 24 to 16.

VMware works aswell
 
GarethDW said:
Have you tried using Samba? That's what I'd use in a normal Linux/Windows environment cause it's easy to set up and it's reliable... I'm assuming that VirtualBox is compatible with it, but as I've never used it I may be wrong.
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I tried Samba...

but smb://jd (jd = name of pc) keeps prompting for a username / password. No matter what I give it (even blanks) - it won't let me in!!

Windows issue?
 
Possibly a Windows issue.... dunno. Did you run smbpasswd? If you don't then I think (possibly incorrectly) that your password is sent in an unencrypted form, which Windows won't accept. Using smbpasswd will encrypt the password and save it to /etc/samba/smbusers using a Microsoft friendly algorithim.

Here's a pretty decent guide... http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Samba_Server
 
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GarethDW said:
Possibly a Windows issue.... dunno. Did you run smbpasswd? If you don't then I think (possibly incorrectly) that your password is sent in an unencrypted form, which Windows won't accept. Using smbpasswd will encrypt the password and save it to /etc/samba/smbusers using a Microsoft friendly algorithim.

Here's a pretty decent guide... http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#Samba_Server
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It said it was unable to change to password :-S or words to that effect....

Is it as my username has a space?
 
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