[ale] Ubuntu in Oracle's VirtualBox (not)

[Horkan Smith]

John, which way?  I've had success running Ubuntu both in KVM/QEMU and as an alternate partition on a laptop.

Running it in KVM/QEMU is simpler than a separate partition, and I believe that it should be similar to using VirtualBox.

If you're installing via VirtualBox or KVM, and you're absolutely sure you're running in the VM, it's safe to let it get installed to /dev/sda 'cause that's the virtualized /dev/sda, not the real one.

Damon's suggestion to add two virtual disks is an excellent suggestion.  Another way is to look at the current partitions listed as you do the install - a new VM won't have any, but your host system will have it's main OS already installed.

Let me know if you really want to run it as a multi-boot.  It's do-able, but a bit of a pain.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 08:49:20PM -0400, John Caruso wrote:
> I installed it and when I got to the point where it wanted to use dev/sda as a boot point I feared for my hard drive so I stopped the installation but it continued and ran the desktop just fine. I checked some things like the browser and the Office substitutes and then quit. Today I fired it up again and go a "no boot device" error so I had to get rid of it. If anyone has had success with this method let me know. I have given up trying to run any distro "alongside' another system. 

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   horkan

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