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If you've trying this on any of the alpha releases of Intrepid, you've probably gotten a kernel panic while its trying to boot up. If you've had this trouble, then apparently there is good news on the horizon. According to the main bug reporting page , a fix has been recently committed. I'll test it out in the next couple of days and post any instructions or tips on getting it to work. Check back!

Others have been having this problem as well. To solve it - download VBoxGuestAdditons 1.6.0 from here . Uninstall the 1.6.4 (or the 1.6.2, which also seems to cause problems) version of guest additions and install this older one. Reboot. Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon.

For purposes of this tutorial, I will assume that you already have installed Virtualbox (th Personal Use & Evaluation License Version), have installed Windows XP as a guest, and have also installed Guest Additions. Here are the steps from here: sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh. Uncomment these lines (arount line 42): mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644 ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb sudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start Virtualbox - Settings: Make sure to enable USB created a group named "usbfs" and added yourself to it. sudo gedit /etc/fstab Add (make sure that the devid is correct for "usbfs" in System - Administration - Users and Groups): usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1003,devmode=0666 0 0 sudo mount -a (which will remount everything in fstab) That did it for me! Hope this helps someone. Technorati ...

Follow these steps to install the Guest Additions on your Debian virtual machine: 1. Login as root; 2. Update your APT database with apt-get update; 3. Install the latest security updates with apt-get upgrade; 4. Install required packages with apt-get install build-essential module-assistant; 5. Configure your system for building kernel modules by running m-a prepare; 6. Click on Install Guest Additions… from the Devices menu, then run mount /media/cdrom. 7. Run sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run, and follow the instructions on screen. Once you install and reboot, then you can add shared folders from the device menu, and mount it with the following command: # mount.vboxsf [the_name_of_the_shared_folder] /media/[name_of_mount_point]

The command is this: VBoxManage clonevdi /home/winship/.VirtualBox/VDI/WinXP.vdi /media/storage2/tmp/WinXP.vdi To restore it, go to File->Virtual Disk Manager->Add and select your backup .vdi file