Showing posts with label virtualbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtualbox. Show all posts

Thursday, December 30, 2010

print from xp guest running under virtualbox on ubuntu host

Good stuff:
http://funwithlinux.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/sharing-ubuntu-host-printer-with-windows-xp-running-in-virtualbox/

Only issue is doesn't explain how to find url of ubuntu host from within guest system (host isn't running webserver.  would that make a diff?  idk)

To find use ifconfig, address under vmnet1 (vmnet1 is virtualbox, vmnet8 is  vmware.  I think that's standard)

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu

in guest:
install dkms & gcc if not already:
sudo apt-get install dkms gcc


install generic kernel headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
uname string passes kernel version to apt


download/mount guest adds .iso, cd to .iso and:
sudo .sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run install
reboot guest, gtg