<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Tony Pursell <<a href="mailto:ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk">ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 19:01 -0700, NoOp wrote: > On 06/29/2010 06:40 PM, Verde Denim wrote: > > I wanted to build a vm of bt4 on my netbook external drive, but with limited > > (3) usb ports and needing two for each of the drive and the external cd/dvd > > drives, I am looking into mounting the iso on the local file system to > > install into a vitrualbox machine. > > Upon downloading the iso, I checked the context menu of the file, and there > > is an entry labeled _Open with Archive Mounter_ but selecting this action > > doesn't seem to yield the results I was looking for (unless i'm missing > > something). > > I did find this article - > > <a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/mount-and-unmout-iso-images-without-burning-them.htmlon" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntugeek.com/mount-and-unmout-iso-images-without-burning-them.htmlon</a> > > mounting through Nautilus, but was wondering - > > Has anyone tried these and found them useful? > > Am I missing something about the Archive Mounter? > > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManageDiscImages" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManageDiscImages</a> > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountIso#Mounting%20ISO%20Files" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountIso#Mounting%20ISO%20Files</a> > <<a href="http://www.hackourlives.com/mount-iso-images-using-gui-in-ubuntu-10-04-linux/" target="_blank">http://www.hackourlives.com/mount-iso-images-using-gui-in-ubuntu-10-04-linux/</a>> > <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/furiusisomount" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/furiusisomount</a> > > </div>You don't need to take any special action to use an iso with Virtualbox. You just tell it to use the iso file instead of a CD. Tony </blockquote><div>Tony Thanks for the reply. Yep. I figured that out after trying to use a mounted iso... Unmounting and going through some vbox text gave me the rest of what I was after - thanks. 10.04 running on a Samsung N220 with virtual box machines on an external 1Tb SATA3 - not a bad portable setup so far... Regards Jack </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">-- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>