[Ubuntu-be] installation problem with VirtualBox 4.0

[Christophe Strobbe]

At 15:22 24/01/2011, Bram Gadeyne wrote:
>Dear Christophe,
>
>I have also noticed that VirtualBox has problems with Ubuntu 10.10. 
>Or Ubuntu 10.10 has problems with VirtualBox ;-).
>
>I would suggest you try installing it using wubi. It will look as if 
>you have installed Ubuntu in dual boot but in fact you can remove 
>Ubuntu from windows like you would uninstal every other program.
>
>Surfing the net I also found one solution that might work. 
>VirtualBox has some guest tools that you can install. Maybe you can 
>boot VirtualBox in live CD mode and install these guest tools in 
>there. Then You can try and install Ubuntu afterwards.

Thank you Bram and (off-list) Wouter,

I was finally able to get through the installation process: after 
suspending the process I did not remove Ubuntu from VirtualBox (which 
was what I did the first 3/4 times) but simply restarted it from 
inside VirtualBox. This time I made sure that my network cable was 
already plugged in before starting Ubuntu (otherwise the installer 
did not seem to detect the network connection) and that I used the 
mouse instead of the arrow keys to select the keyboard. The 
installation completed in a normal fashion.
(After shutting down and restarting Ubuntu, the system displayed the 
Try/Install Ubuntu screen again and I had no access to my user 
account. This was confusing but it appears that I should raise this 
issue on another mailng list.)

Best regards,

Christophe



>With kind regards
>
>Bram Gadeyne
>
>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
>
>
>--
>Bram Gadeyne