Running Windows 7 inside VirtualBox
Overview
Windows 7 can be run on Ubuntu, inside of VirtualBox. This gives
access to Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Minitab, and other
software. One user may run it on a machine at a time. It only runs
reasonably on machines with 4 Gig or more of memory. These machines
include:
catfish ghoshm
coral lab
drum rosalsky
koi rrandles
mackerel mdaniels
poisson2 doss
sealion kdkhare
skate jhobert
whale mripol
To start it up, use the "windows" command. VirtualBox tends to put up
several warning and informational messages when it starts. You may
safely ignore all of these and click the "Continue" and "OK" buttons.
You may run it remotely over X-Windows, and the performance hit is
tolerable. After you start up a Windows application, it will be
sluggish for a few seconds and not keep up with your typing, but this
will improve quickly.
$ windows &
TOPDIR /depot/vb-4/win-7-one
Running against transient symlink tree in /tmp/win-7-one
$
Screenshots
Booting...
Still booting...
Ready to use. The Windows equivalent of the Ubuntu "Applications"
menu is the "Start" menu, at the lower left under the Windows flag.
To get to your home directory files, click on the Start menu in the
lower left corner, that's the 4-colored flag in the yellow circle.
Then click on Computer in the menu that appears.
Click on drive E:, also known as \\vboxsrv and ROOT.
Click on home.
Click on your username. The resulting panel will show your home
directory.
To quit, save all your open files in Windows applications and exit the
applications. Click on the window manager close [X] in the upper
right corner. A panel will appear prompting you to discard the state
of the Windows machine and restore the state back to the current
snapshot. These default choices are correct. The snapshot name will
change from time to time as Windows is updated.
In case of confusion, you may kill all the VirtualBox processes, all
of which run as the user, and start over.
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