[ubuntu-za] Windows apps on Ubuntu

[Jan Greeff]

My apologies, Tom.

My impression was that the files would just kick in and work when copied 
to the new Home folder, but then I realised that I should install 
Virtualbox first for it to pick up on the files, which I then did.

Works like magic. Many thanks, I owe you one!

Jan


On 04/06/2012 07:28, Tom Bamford wrote:
> On 3 June 2012 21:54, Jan Greeff<jan at verslank.net>  wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I have copied the VB files to my new Home folder, but cannot open
>> Virtualbox, have I missed something here?
>>
>>
>> Jan
> Hi Jan
>
> Do you get an error message when you open VirtualBox or just nothing?
>
> Can you open a terminal and run these commands, then copy and paste
> the output here? The first command will simply list relevant
> VirtualBox files/folders in your home directory and the second command
> will attempt to run VirtualBox but any background errors should be
> displayed in the terminal.
>
> ls -l ~/*VirtualBox* ~/.*Virtual*
> VirtualBox
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
> PS. VMware is an alternative to VirtualBox although mostly closed
> source and not free (as in $)
>