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If you let it just boot without hitting ESC it'll start a bit, then give up. IMPORTANT: When it starts booting, hit ESC when you see a blinking cursor, then you'll find yourself here. In the Settings for your VM, tell it that the DVD drive actually be the Ubuntu ISO that you downloaded. I saw some strangeness with dynamically expanding disks. I find this is faster and can avoid some strange disk errors with Ubuntu and the VM. When you create a Hard Drive, create a Fixed one rather than a dynamic one. I have 8 gigs on my machine, so I give it probably more than was needed and allocated 3gigs. Go into the Virtual Machines folder, and click Create Virtual Machine.(When you have VPC, you can also some of the various free IE browser testing VMs as well).(You don't need to get Windows XP Mode, but if you want, it's nice.).If you have new or update or better info that is specific to the new changes in Ubuntu 10.4, let me know. I'm trying to make this post as complete as possible. I did now find some useful command-line parameters in this blog post from Mark Wilson. VirtualBox Guest Additions give your virtual machine better mouse pointer integration, the use of shared files between the host and the client, better video support, shared clipboards, and a host of other handy tools.There's lots of info spread around on how to install various older versions of Ubuntu under various older versions of Virtual PC, but I didn't find any referring to the newish Ubuntu 10.4 and VPC on Win 7. The final setup is for the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO. Install the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO Use the Recommended security settings, choose your time zone, and continue. If you do not have a Windows 7 product key now, you can skip this page, but your Windows 7 virtual machine will have limited functionality. If you already input your product key and downloaded Windows 7 direct from Microsoft, you might not encounter this page. Next up is to input your Windows 7 product key. Do not touch a key when prompted or you will return to the Install Now option, rather than letting the installer do its thing.Įventually, you will arrive at the Windows 7 Username set up, followed by the password creation page. Windows 7 will restart a few times during the installation process.