[Ubuntu-be] installation problem with VirtualBox 4.0

[Christophe Strobbe]

Hi Ward,

At 15:04 24/01/2011, Ward De Ridder wrote:
>Hello Christophe,
>
>First of all, the ubuntu-be mailinglist is not meant for support, 
>you can use the ubuntu-en, ubuntu-fr or ubuntu-nl mailinglist for support.

I know about the existence of those lists, but please tell me: how 
many users outside Belgium have experience with Belgian keyboard 
issues? That's why I came to this list first.

Best regards,

Christophe


>For the keyboard layout auto detect you should type the  +  is 
>you're asked to press one of the keys. That way it will detect Belgian AZERTY.
>I didn't have problems installing ubuntu 10.10 yet, but I only did 
>installations on physical machines so far, not with virtual box.
>
>Ward
>
>2011/1/24 Christophe Strobbe 
><<mailto:christophe.strobbe at esat.kuleuven.be>christophe.strobbe at esat.kuleuven.be>
>Hi,
>
>I tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 in VirtualBox 4.0 on Windows XP SP3, 
>but the installation stalls each time at the keyboard layout screen. 
>I use English versions or UI for all my software, but the machine I 
>want to install this on is a Dell Precision laptop with a Belgian 
>keyboard. The "Figure out keboard layout" function suggests "France" 
>in the left-hand side of the screen, but without updating the list 
>of keyboards in the right-hand side (where I get "Turkmenistan" and 
>"Turkmenistan Alt-Q"). The Back and Forward buttons turn grey and 
>the spinner just keeps spinning as if something ended up in an 
>endless loop. The only option I can see is to suspend the process 
>and try again, but I have done this several times by now...
>
>(I used the following options in VirtualBox:
>Base Memory: 768 MB
>Fixed-size storage: 8 GB
>I then pointed VirtualBox to the Ubuntu 10.10 ISO image on my hard 
>disk (I though that should work).)
>
>Is this a known problem? Is there a solution? Searching the Web did 
>not give me any clues.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Christophe Strobbe