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Acer C7 Mostly Working Virtual Box 4.1.12 in Chrubuntu 12.04

Trying to get Virtual Box 4.1.12 from the software center is not a basic download and run.  You can download it, you can run it but when you try to start a machine you create it crashes… always. *PLEASE NOTE* This instruction set is for educational purposes only.  If you follow these instructions and something bad happens […]

Fun with Virtualbox and Error with 64bit Hardware Acceleration on Lenovo T420

So I was having some fun installing Virtual box on my Backtrack 5 R3 install on a new SSD that I am running for a laptop of mine and found an interesting error. error: “VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and […]

Getting Virtualbox running on Backtrack 5 R3 Gnome

For fun (and obvious reasons for being able to take snapshots) I wanted to run virtualbox on my Backtrack 5 R3 64bit Gnome setup.  I did the standard looking for it by doing – sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0 and getting an error was kind of what I thought would get. Google being […]