Ubuntu

To get one of them, you must swipe your credit card for approx. US$50 and up. How does the free version? Don’t worry, you can use the VirtualBox to using virtual machine free of charge. Although it’s free, VirtualBox has good performance. So, I want test it above Windows XP and try to install Ubuntu 8.10 as its guest OS.

And here are the steps:

1. Download latest version of VirtualBox.
2. If you don’t have it yet, Download Ubuntu 8.10 ISO file.
3. Install, VirtualBox. It’s very easy, mostly just click Next button.
4. After VirtualBox is installed, open it.
5. First, setting up your virtual hard drive by click File -> Virtual Media Manager menu.
6. In Virtual Media Manager, click Action -> New menu.
7. Follow all screen in Create New Virtual Disk wizard. I suggest Dynamically expanding storage as Storage Type value.
   
   Give it file name and adjust its size, I recommend to at least 4GB.
   
8. After virtual hard drive is created, in VirtualBox screen click Machine -> New menu.
9. Give it the name that representative to Ubuntu such as Ubuntu 8.10 and Operating System to Linux and Version to Ubuntu.
   
10. I recommend to adjust memory size to at least 512MB, in next screen, choose your virtual hard drive that you created and then in next screen click Finish button to finalize the wizard.
11. Then, boot up the machine with your Ubuntu ISO that attached as virtual CD/DVD. To do this, click Machine -> Settings menu.
12. Click tab CD/DVD ROM, check the Mount CD/DVD Drive, click ISO Image File and then browse to your download iso file.
    
13. Start your virtual machine by click Machine -> Start menu.
14. Then follow the Ubuntu installation wizard. It’s very easy, I no doubt about that…
    
    
15. After installation progress is done (based on my experiment, it takes about an hour), it will restart the virtual machine and… your Ubuntu is started.
    
    

Hopefully, this article can help you to install Ubuntu above your exist Windows XP.