Ubuntu is my regular development environment and to test webapps on Internet Explorer, I use Windows running in VirtualBox. Installing VirtualBox is easy, since you can get it from the Ubuntu Software Center.
To make it really useful, you should install Guest Additions. This enables copy/paste between Ubuntu and Windows, and easy transfer of file by mounting a Ubuntu folder into Windows. You should be able to install Guest Additions by selecting the Devices/Install Guest Additions. However, I get an error message:
Failed to download the VirtualBox Guest Additions CD image from http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.1.2_Ubuntu/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.2_Ubuntu.iso. Error downloading http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.1.2_Ubuntu/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.2_Ubuntu.iso - server replied: Not Found
Apparently, the ISO used to be available from SUN, and is probably shutdown after the Oracle merger. After some googling, I found that you can download the ISO manually here:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox
After downloading, just mount this ISO as a CD in the VirtualBox settings, boot up Windows and startup the installation yourself. After that, copy/paste and mounting host folders should work.
7 comments:
Thanks for the information. Worth mentioning that 4.1.6 did not work for me I had to download vboxguest4.1.4
Thanks a lot for the link, was very usefull
Thanks a lot for the link, was very usefull
Thank you for the tip!
Thanks so much! Very helpful.
Thanks for the tip. This was the full URL that worked for me:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.2/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.2.iso
can you please explain where to put this iso file and how to use.
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