VirtualBox 3.1 Beginners Guide : Sample Chapter

I’ve written quite a bit on this blog regarding Virtualization in the past. I think I’ve covered VirtualBox as well as VMware. If you haven’t noticed, I prefer the former. Free Software vs non-free is a big win, plus the performance gain that I’ve seen in VirtualBox has been great. For testing other distributions and doing simple work (non-server) installations, I think VirtualBox works the best.
I was recently sent a copy of “VirtualBox 3.1 Beginners Guide: Deploy and manage a cost-effective virtual environment using VirtualBox” by Packt Publishing. I’ll have a full review out soon, but I wanted to share this sample chapter that they have published as a .pdf.
The sample chapter is a 42 page chapter outlining getting started with VirtualBox. This includes installation, configuration and even outlines the installation of a simple Linux distribution as a guest, DSL (Damn Small Linux). For a “sample” it is actually quite impressive, and goes into a great amount of detail.
I’ll have a full review of the book here soon, but in the meantime have a look at the sample chapter and let me know what you think.
Source: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/06/18/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide-sample-chapter/

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How to Get Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller Working With Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jacklope

How to Get Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller Working With Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jacklope

When “Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller” User Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 , they will face Strong Problem and that is Compiz-Fusion Doesn't Work (Couldn't Be Enabled) , and the reason is that Intel GM965/GL960 had ‘blacklisted’ Due to This bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/compiz/+bug/363821

Now We Will Try one of the solutions to Get your video card out of Blacklist

To do this you need to create the following file:-

~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager

and add the following line:-

SKIP_CHECKS=yes

Now your Video Card is Fully Enabled , Enjoy Compiz-Fusion .

Hope That helps , I Wrote this tutorial because a lot of people who have Intel Centrino faced this Problem, And I Will Add Another Tutorial about that later , Hope That helps ;)

Source :

http://www.rudkin.me.uk/2009/04/22/how-to-get-your-intel-gm965gl960-working-with-compiz-on-ubuntu-jaunty-jackalope/

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How to Install Windows Live Messenger & Microsoft Visual C++ on Ubuntu ( Linux Generally)

How to Install Windows Live Messenger & Microsoft Visual C++ on Ubuntu ( Linux Generally) Under Wine

Install Windows Live Messenger :

Today we are going to install Windows Live Messenger & Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 on Ubuntu Under Wine

We will use Latest Wine Version , Right Now Latest Version is 1.1.24

Note for Ubuntu Users : Ubuntu Uses Latest Stable Version of Wine 1.0.1 on it's Repositories

So Download Latest Version from Here : http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html

Or Add WineHQ APT Repository Here : http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

Now we will use many Wine Tricks to help use to install Windows Live Messenger .

Open Terminal & Type

wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

then we will use these packages of Wine Tricks to help us to Install WLM

corefonts
flash
gecko
gdiplus
msls31
msxml3
riched20
riched30
tahoma

Now Type on Terminal :

sh winetricks corefonts flash gecko gdiplus msls31 msxml3 riched20 riched30 tahoma

Now we Installed Wine Tricks That we will Use.

Download This Version “Install_{508CE775-4BA4-4748-82DF-FE28DA9F03B0}.msi” of WLM

Press Here

Now Open WLM Setup File that you just Downloaded , Install it , Enjoy Windows Live Messenger.

ScreenShots :

How to Install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 :

Many of C++ Programmers who just moved to linux are not familiar with GCC and G++ Compilers and Also Need Microsoft Visual C++ libraries , we Are lucky that there is version of Microsoft Visual C++ Working Under Wine Perfectly and it is “Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition”

Get your Legal Copy of Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition and Install it Using Wine + Wine Tricks Installed Above .

Screenshot :

Download PDF of This Tutorial : Press Here
Any Help Just type Comment Below.

Enjoy ;)

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First Post

This is my first post on this blog , the blog will contain alot of Linux Tutorials And Tricks .

The blog is Multi-Authors.
The blog will be in 2 Languages : Arabic ; for All Arab that I'm one of them .
English : for all people in rest of World .

English Version of Blog will be here on Blogger and Arabic Version will be on Wordpress , i think it will be nice to try wordpress and blogger through.

Sure , all people can comment , share ideas , asking for help .....,etc .

Feel Free.

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