Vbox 2.0.0 upgrade on Ubuntu Hardy AMD64 blowing up
Steven Davies-Morris
sdavmor at systemstheory.net
Wed Sep 10 03:58:11 UTC 2008
David Fox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Steven Davies-Morris
> <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
>> I'm running an AMD Athlon X2 dual core 5200+ processor with 4gb
>> of RAM. When I start the Vbox (non OSE) virtual I typically give
>> it 1.5gb. It's been running great with hardly any issues for
>> several months other than Explorer sometimes locking up for no
>> good reason.
>
> How difficult was it to upgrade to 2.0.0?
The upgrade was straightforward. Add the virtualbox link and the
checksum to the repos and have at it. Or download and install. Either
way it cleanly overwrote my older 1.6.4 Vbox.
> Are you able to virtualize 64-bit as well as 32-bit now? AFAICT
> that was supposed to be possible in "next major release", whatever
> that is.
My copy of WinXP is the standard 32bit. I have no idea if the 64bit XP
works, though <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog> says it does.
> And is it yet in the repos?
No.
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