You can just enable ACPI and PAE/NX in the VirtualBox image General Settings and you are all set to install Ubuntu.

It’s been long time since I posted in my blog. It’s past midnight Wednesday (I love Selangor state for its public holidays!) and no office tomorrow.

I watched closely VirtualBox from its Sun acquisition and I am very pleased with the project progress overall. On my day to day RnD stuff I have already shifted myself from VMWare Sever to VirtualBox.

In VirtualBox after installing Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server (Hardy) and rebooting, you will get some errors that your CPU is not supported.

It’s because you have no linux-virtual package installed. So here’s the steps how to pass by this problem.

1. Reboot the instance, boot into Rescue a broken system
2. If you chose auto-partitioning, select sda1 as your root directory and enter into it.
3. Execute dhclient eth0, apt-get update && apt-get install linux-virtual
4. Type exit and reboot the system from the menu.

Now you will be able to boot into your newly installed Ubuntu.