VirtualBox
VirtualBox provides a “virtual software platform” in which a variety of operating systems (client) in variety of operating systems (host), e.g. VirtualBox can be installed on a Linux platform and run Windows or another Linux variant, or on Windows and run a Linux distribution.
Here are some links to VirtualBox on Linux running Windows:
- Saltycrane
- Linux Host – Server 2008 Guest + XP Guest
- tomshardware – Virtualbox – Linux (Host), Windows 7 x64 (Guest) – Gaming
- tomshardware -guest gaming more
- Linux host with windows guest virtual box
- System76 – Windows 10
- Virtualbox with Ubuntu as host, Win7 as guest
Install instructions
Garmin pointers
Great Article
Submitted by Lambchopper (not verified) on Thu, 01/14/2010 – 10:16.
I use VirtualBox to run XP on my Ubuntu 9.10 laptop. The only reason I need XP is to use my Garmin GPS. I did run in to one issue, for some reason my Garmin gets detected by the Windows Guest, but the software won’t connect. I found that I had to restart the Hardware typically done through Device manager. Which was a royal pain in the a$$. I suspect this had to do with the Virtual Machine not starting the GPS USB device fast enough. Anyway, I corrected this by using microsoft’s Devcon utility (http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/devcon-an-alternative-to-devi…) To script a new shortcut that would restart the hardware when I launched the GPS software.
Incidentally, I also had problems connecting to the Network once or twice for a similar reason via the VitualBox Guest OS. The above command placed in a batch file corrected that issue too.
I’ve only had this problem with WinXP as a Guest in VirtualBox, so I figured I’d post this in case any of your readers experience a similar issue.
Dave
Great Article
Submitted by Lambchopper (not verified) on Thu, 01/14/2010 – 10:16.
I use VirtualBox to run XP on my Ubuntu 9.10 laptop. The only reason I need XP is to use my Garmin GPS. I did run in to one issue, for some reason my Garmin gets detected by the Windows Guest, but the software won’t connect. I found that I had to restart the Hardware typically done through Device manager. Which was a royal pain in the a$$. I suspect this had to do with the Virtual Machine not starting the GPS USB device fast enough. Anyway, I corrected this by using microsoft’s Devcon utility (http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/devcon-an-alternative-to-devi…) To script a new shortcut that would restart the hardware when I launched the GPS software.
Incidentally, I also had problems connecting to the Network once or twice for a similar reason via the VitualBox Guest OS. The above command placed in a batch file corrected that issue too.
I’ve only had this problem with WinXP as a Guest in VirtualBox, so I figured I’d post this in case any of your readers experience a similar issue.
Dave
Updated Ubuntu to 16.04LTS which required updating VirtualBox and its extension pack
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add –
sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-5.1
sudo apt-get install virtualbox