<p>I have a Windows on my machine, cause for some stuff I still need it, (MS Visio, MindMaps and couple of others application that doesn't run fine with Wine). It's a pain in the ass to always boot machine to access 2 or 3 files and stay 15 minutes on Windows.</p> <p>A couple of years ago I was a big fan of <a href="http://www.vmware.com/" title="VMware" target="_blank">VMware</a> (old times that I virtualize ubuntu on windows), and I felt a lack of OSS on this area. So the solution it's virtualization, with <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org" title="VirtualBox" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a> it all comes easy!</p> <p>VirtualBox, was recently bought by Sun, has 2 licenses: one commercial and one open source. I use OSE and to install it you have to follow these steps:</p> <pre><code>$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-generic</code></pre> <p>Then add your current user on 'vboxusers'&nbsp; group</p> <pre><code>$ sudo adduser someuser vboxusers</code></pre> <p>Go to applications &gt; system tools &gt; VirtualBox</p> <p>Now create your Windows VM with the almost NNF (next, next,finish) wizard. It's a piece of cake!</p> 2008-06-24T16:01:13Z 25 windows-in-ubuntu-8-04-with-virtualbox 2008-10-20T21:02:53Z 2