Running Ubuntu Gusty Mini image in Virtual Box

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Got the idea for Virtual Box from the Linux which distro thread and then downloaded a mini image to use. Vbox didn't work the first time (fixed HD size smaller then 10 GB but set dynamic size to 8 GB). We will see the result. Will keep posted

Host P4 1.8 GHz Windows XP SP2

Guest Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon Mini iso

I quite like the image of gibbons blowing in the wind (gusty). Maybe they should have called it that.

Have fun.

Well had a little fun since I ran into two problems I kind of gave up

Vbox couldn't create a fixed drive size under 10 GB so I decided on a dynamic one of 8 GB

Then Vbox stated that I ran low on memory (512 MB system but allocated 256 MB for Virtual Machine)

I'll probably try again later although what I'd like to do is run Debian on a VM should I use Vbox or WMware?

Debian using the 40 MB business card image

Sorry. I should have said. I'm running the exact reverse. Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon as host, and others under that. Also a 512M RAM 1.6GHz P4. The guest OSes at 256Mbytes. I also use 8G dynamic virtual drives. I never tried using a fixed size one.

With XP running, my system slows up rather a lot, as it is using about 1.2Gbytes net RAM. I did at one point accidentally start a second virtual machine, but I killed it off quite quickly, as I couldn't see that being much of a success.

Well nobody stated that XP or Vista was memory efficient

Sorry for the bump

Giving this a second try except changed a few things

Debian instead of Ubuntu Gusty (Business card image)
128 MB virtual memory

Still installing

Erm... 9.5 hours for the install, and counting? Sounds to me as if something's gone wrong.

lol I installed vbox and then used the Debian Business card iso to install. Install went fine and then Xorg was giving trouble so I just removed Vbox from my computer, but it was a fun exercise.

Strange. I very rarely un-install anything. Why bother?

(Oh. Sorry. Windows. Yes. Uninstall everything, 'cos Windows doesn't like having more than one application installed at a time - you might try to run both of them!)

Windows: making Swiss Cheese complain (since it has more holes) .