Theres something accrosed my mind last night … I was thinking about virtualization ! I want to run another machine on my current system (Ubuntu FF). And the reason for all of these are :

• i want to try another flavour of linux distros (and other OS maybe) without risking my current system
• Sometime i need to test a new experimental software/system (in this case is my thesis)

Actually there’s a lot of another reason at least for business players. The most common familiar reason is VDS. VDS stands for Virtual Dedicated Server. VDS actually just an emulation of a real system, but it act like real machine. Lets say i have enough money to buy a server and make run it as web server. Someday in the future, might be i need more servers for some reason. Rather than i buy an extra servers, i choose to install a Virtual Machine. Depends on what hardware i have, i can install several VM. Every single VM have its own OS,IP,domain name and act just like real machine. See ? it saves money right?
Not only saves your money, but VDS can saves your energy. Why? like i said before, VDS is an emulation, its virtual and its have a virtual hard drive (its called ‘image’). Image is an single files that you can easly backup/copy/move or even simply delete (we wont do this). So you can easly backup your “Machine” any time you like. In case might be your system got hacked by the black hat hackers and your system totally ruined, you can easly restore by loading another backup image that you have created before, abrakadabra your system is up and running again …
There’s so many others reason why we need Virtualization, find out your self by asking our uncle google …

Ok i think its enough talking aboout Virtualization, lets the show begin ..
I choose VirtualBox on Ubuntu because i think VB is easy enough to install/use and luckly ubuntu is my system. But the important things is VirtualBox is an OpenSource software. Most people even can do this stuff (install and running) just by knowing the name. “What? VirtualBox, okay i’ll try, wew its so easy …” . But for those that really want to know here’s my experience last night. To complete my desire last night, i did these following steps :

• First of all get the package ! You can download VB in here. I choose the .deb file since im using Ubuntu FF
• Install the package by simply double clicking it or by typing
  $sudo dpkg -i virtualbox_1.5.0-24069-1_Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb
  This step require root access
• Next step is assigning a virtualbox group to your account. I accomplished this by editing account settings in System -> Administration -> Users and Groups. I choose Manage Group and then select vboxusers, click properties and then add your account by checking your account.


this steps will allow you to access VirtualBox

• Now i have my VirtualBox installed on my system, im ready to create some virtual machine

To create a new virtual machine, do these stpes :

• Open virtualbox (alt+f2, type VirtualBox)



• Click New
• As i said, VirtualBox is easy to setup. Through the wizard you can safely done this step



• The important things to remember is choose the name of your VM, type of your hard drive (static or not), and size of it, ammount of based memory (RAM)
• If you just want to run a live-cd based OS in other words you dont need a HDD then you dont have to create any hard drive image
• Most users needs cdrom to be mounted to their VM, this can be done by using your CD/DVD rom drive or you can choose an iso image as your VM’s CD/DVD rom drive
• To run your VM, just select your desire machine and click start

Another stuff related about managing VirtualBox is easy to learn since the UI is well designed.
Yap thats it ! simple, easy and yet powerfull …

Here’s come the screenshot :