guided upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS.

[nio wiklund]

2012/9/2 Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>:
> On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:43:29 +0200
> Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [typing error: of course it should be ... compared to old 10.04 ... :
>>
>> 3. Unity as well as gnome-shell are much slower and need more memory
>> than before, so it makes the computer slow compared to old 10.04. I'm
>> talking about computers with (2 and 4) CPUs and (2 and 4 GB) RAM.]
>> -----
>> I can confirm that
>>
>> 1. I'm still making progress, but I'm not ready to make 12.04 LTS to my
>> main OS. 'The workhorse' is still 10.04 LTS.
>>
>> - I had some problems with screenlets, that I fixed with direct calling
>> of the python command lines (via a small shellscript).
>>
>> - VirtualBox in that fresh install was in 64-bit 12.04 Ubuntu. And it
>> was the version from the repos without USB.
>>
>> * Has anybody managed to get USB running in VirtualBox in 12.04? *
>> * or in 12.10? *
>
> Not being as smart as some people, I did not bother paying attention to
> Oracle's PUEL warning for this. I installed Xubuntu 12.04, then
> installed VirtualBox from the repositories. I got a warning that USB
> would not work without the extension pack, so I did the following:
>
> Go to virtualbox website and download the extensions pack, ignoring the
> wording about it being for PEUL only.
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> VirtualBox 4.1.20 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack  All platforms
>
> Go to the download directory, double-click the extension pack you
> downloaded.
>
> Click on install, agree to the PUEL license. When the install screen
> comes back, USB is usable.
>
> Hopefully, this will work for you, too.
>
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Thank you Charlie,

It works for me now, I can run 64 bit code and I can use USB. After
downloading the extensions pack, I started VirtualBox and selected

File - Preferences - Plugins  # or something similar (translated from Swedish)

and clicked to button to add the extension pack. I was prompted to add
myself to the vboxuser group in the host OS.

Best regards
Nio