Posts Tagged 'virtualBox'

Ubuntu Lucid: Upgrading To Lynx In Virtualbox

I have Virtualbox 3.1.4 r57640 installed on Windows XP as the host, Ubuntu 9.10 as the guest. And since the ubuntu is not being used as an active development currently, I decided to upgrade it to Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1. Having read a lot of positive reviews for Lucid Lynx, I wanted to try it out as soon as possible.

The upgrade took more than a couple of hours. It downloaded a GB of package data from ...

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Adding Startup And Shutdown Scripts in Ubuntu

I have my Ubuntu installed in Virtual Box. The very first thing that I needed to do was to setup my Ubuntu to recognize Windows drives. I setup two bash scripts to run at startup and shutdown. The following is what I have done.

anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo vi vboxStartup
#!/bin/bash

# Mount the Win virtual drives - MyDocument, CShared, PidginWin
sudo mount -t vboxsf MyDocuments /mnt/MyDocuments
sudo mount -t vboxsf CShared /mnt/CShared
sudo mount -t vboxsf PidginWin /mnt/PidginWin

# Sync ...

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