virtualbox

Just as a reminder:

• use the disk sharing icon at the bottom of he VirtualBox window to setup a shared directory (let's say you give it a name of "shareddir")
• go inside the VirtualBox window
• if you haven't installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions (commonly referred to as GA), please do so from the "Devices" menu of your Virtual Box window
• open a terminal (Execute cmd)
• type "net use x: \vboxsrvshareddir"

Seldom, this might still trigger a

System error 67 has occured.

VirtualBox is a very practical application running under Linux systems, and packaged into Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, that lets you virtualise an operating system. A bit in the same way as QEmu did it, except that, to make it short, it works better. Anyway, VirtualBox is highly dependent on the kernel of the base system you're running it on, so it is linked to the kernel packages in Ubuntu. The only problem is that, when upgrading your kernel with the usual Ubuntu package updates, you don't get an update for the VirtualBox right away.