MyGeekProject

While there are lots of Virtual Machines like the VMware Workstation for Linux it cost money after 30 days. Another cost affective Virtual Machine by Sun Microsystems. This one is free and has a reasonably easy install. This is how I installed it.

Get the software (hopefully it remains a stable link in the future)

http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html#linux

Reading the VirtualBox documentation it looks like you have to APT-GET a few programs before installing and some other changes to the Permissions.

sudo apt-get install dkms

I also have some problems installing this above and had to run the following per directions from terminal

sudo apt-get install -f

Once you find the correct version you need to download it. You will notice that it is a .deb package. To install the .deb package you need to run the following command:

sudo dpkg --install virtualbox-2.1_2.1.4-42893_Ubuntu_intrepid_amd64.deb

You might find that you have some problems but I hope that it install anyway. Now add yourself to the GROUP vboxusers in the System/Administration/Users and Groups

Now run this command and see if it will check the system and everything should be good after this

/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Now you might want to check the Applications Menu to see if it is completely install. Applications/System Tools.

Good luck and hope it works for you and you have fun.

Attached virtualbox installation instructions from the DVD they gave out at MacWorld for more instructions.

I thought some people out there might want some directions on how to install VMware Workstation on an Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit system. Also since it doesn’t use a apt-get to install.

VMware Workstation 6.5 allows you to virtualize multiple operating system on your Linux desktop. The VM images should be interchangeable between windows and Mac OS X VMware Fusion 2.x.

1) Once you get the software from www.vmware.com put it on the desktop. The open terminal and run the commands below.

sudo sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.bundle

The install should open up and begin to install. Once it has completed you can find the application in the Applications / System Tools

So when I was running 64-bit Unbuntu 8.10 I noticed that the network dropped from the machine for no reason what so ever. The machine was fine just that the network gave out. I found this little explanation and the solution which I am going to try out and see if it works.

Originally found here: http://www.nnbfn.net/tag/ubuntu/

Here is the Exerpt: CRITICAL: cannot initialize libpolkit 

Here is the posting:

The error is triggered by the update-modt cron job which runs ever 10 minutes.
This is a bug in Intrepid. console-kit-daemon requires PolicyKit as a dependancy, but Intrepid (Server AMD64) does not install it when it installs console-daemon-kit.

The simple fix is to install policykit.

sudo apt-get install policykit

Next run of the update-motd job and the error is gone.