<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks! It probably will be slow, but I really only need it once or twice a week to use the two devices I could not find Linux drivers for, so I'll just have to live with it. It'll still be more of a time saver this way than having to shut down and then re-boot into Windows which is what I have been doing now.<div><br></div><div>I guess in my case I could not just load the virtual box into Xubuntu though because I used wubi to install it. Would I not have to erase Windows completely first and re-install Xubuntu? As now Xubuntu sort of runs within a Windows XP host environment, within which I would want Windows XP to run. I mean, I have no idea about any of this but somehow it feels like that would not make sense.</div><div><br></div><div>Steffen<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 6/8/11, Drmgiver <i><drmgiver@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Drmgiver <drmgiver@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] [OT] VirtualBox seamlss mode (was Re: Official or Not?)<br>To: "Xubuntu Help and User Discussions" <xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com><br>Date: Saturday, 6 August, 2011, 17:57<br><br><div id="yiv337951444"> <title></title> Well, on that computer it will probably be pretty darn slow, but give it a shot. And no, you wouldn't have to reinstall Xubuntu, just go to this address: <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv337951444moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads">http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads</a> and click the appropriate link for your computer (Ubuntu version and whether it is x86 or 64) install the .deb as normal and you are ready to go.<br> <br> Justin<br> <br> On 08/06/2011 09:22 AM, Steffen Schwarz wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font:inherit;" valign="top"><font class="yiv337951444Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">That is absolutely amazing, thanks for that!!</font> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><br> </div> <div><font class="yiv337951444Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">No more dual boot, no more WINE to run Windows apps for which there is no Linux version! I think that message should be highlighted on the Xubuntu website to win over more Windows users who are looking for something better than Windows but at the same time rely on some Windows apps.</font> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;">I guess the question still is if VirtualBox will run on a netbook with 1.6Ghz and 1GB RAM but I guess I'll just have to try it. </div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><br> </div> <div><font class="yiv337951444Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Does that mean I have to re-install Xubuntu completely?</font></div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;">Thanks again for all this extremely valuable information everyone!</div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"> <div> <div>--- On <b>Sat, 6/8/11, Chris McCormick <i><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv337951444moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:chris@mccormick.cx" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=chris@mccormick.cx"><chris@mccormick.cx></a></i></b> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><br> From: Chris McCormick <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv337951444moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:chris@mccormick.cx" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=chris@mccormick.cx"><chris@mccormick.cx></a><br> Subject: [xubuntu-users] [OT] VirtualBox seamlss mode (was Re: Official or Not?)<br> To: "Xubuntu Help and User Discussions" <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv337951444moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"><xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com></a><br> Date: Saturday, 6 August, 2011, 2:48<br> <br> <div class="yiv337951444plainMail">Hi,<br> <br> After launching your other OS instance, you need to do "Install Guest Additions" from the devices menu, and then Seamless Mode should appear in the "Machine" menu.<br> <br> Cheers,<br> <br> Chris.<br> <br> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:43:37PM -0500, Drmgiver wrote:<br> > How exactly do you enable seamless mode? <br> > <br> > Justin <br> > <br> > Sent from Samsung mobile<br> > <br> > Chris McCormick <<a rel="nofollow">chris@mccormick.cx</a>> wrote:<br> > <br> > >Hi,<br> > ><br> > >> This has been an incredibly interesting and insightful discussion so far, thanks for that!<br> > >> Does that mean I can run Windows using VirtualBox inside Xubuntu to use the two or three applications I rely on that don't work on Linux as opposed to the dual boot approach? Would that be a better way of doing things?<br> > >> -Ross<br> > ><br> > >Yeah for sure, I use VirtualBox this way when I need to run Windows applications for my work. There is even a thing called "Seamless Mode" which makes it seem like you have an integrated Windows + Xubuntu desktop. So you get a Windows taskbar as well as you normal Xubuntu panels, and when you launch a Windows application its window appears over the top of your normal Xubuntu desktop. 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