VirtualBox In Ubuntu Tips / Howto’s [Quickies]

Virtualbox is installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment. Basically you can use it to run an OS inside another OS, without affecting your current OS.

Get Your USB Drives To Work With VirtualBox (Ubuntu Host)
Resize A VirtualBox 4.0+ Hard Disk (.VDI)
How To Clone (Copy) A VirtualBox .vdi
Test Ubuntu 11.04 With Unity In VirtualBox 4.0
Install VirtualBox 4.0.x (Stable) In Ubuntu, Via Repository (latest version 4.0.4)
Convert .IMG Files To .VDI For VirtualBox

 

While the above how-to’s are targeted at Ubuntu users, they should work in Windows too, just use the exact path to “VBoxManage.exe” instead of the “VBoxManage” command used in Ubuntu.

VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.