Saturday, 29 October 2011

Virtual Box issue

Virtual Box issue

I got the program installed. started the set up then ran into issues when i tried to specify a folder to be used as the virtual hard drive. apparently it wants an iso but there is no option to create one on right clicking the required folder. I found a long shot on searching and typed


install mkisofs
sudo apt-get install mkisofs

then

mkisofs -o xp.iso /media/cdrom/

well /media/cdrom doesnt exist nor does my memory card yet its visible in the GUI

The answer is probably so basic its escaping me but i can't try the official virtual box forums as it wants me to put the latest released version in yet rejects the information i put

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