Because of an introduction to laptop at work, I have to bring my laptop back and forth to work. Because this isn’t my laptop I feel that I cannot run Ubuntu Linux as the main OS – although I wish I could. Instead I have to rely heavily on windows 7 and VirtualBox.
As of writing this I have already had two crashes. This could be caused by the fact that the Ubuntu version I am running is quite new, and so the VirtualBox version I am running does not support it fully.
During this process I have tried to find out if it was possible to make the physical Dell D420-laptop virtual using virtualization tools – also known as P2V. VMWare has such a tool, but when you only have VMWare Server installed, making a Linux OS virtual is not possible.
What I ended up doing was to create a Virtual partition. Then install Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS). Then I started moving files and folders from the old laptop to the new one.
I used SCP in this process.
The good thing about doing this by hand is that you have total control over the process. The “drawback” is that it takes time.
I hope that the guys (and girls) at Virtualbox (Oracle) will start developing a P2V with Linux-support for VirtualBox. It would be a nice addition to what seems to be a great product.
Virtual Ubuntu
May 11th, 2010
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