Virtualbox is a really great software if you want to use linux but you still can't let go some of the windows application because you need them. And in my opinion it's faster and less memory needed than if you're using VMWare.
There are things that a bit complicated in Virtualbox such as setting bridge network so the guest can use internet as well as the host and of course the guest can contact other workstation in the network.
But now we're not talking about how to setup a bridge networking. You can see the bridge networking setting in my previous post.
The thing is if you use the bridge networking in my previous post then you can't use your windows user name and password in linux client because if you do then can't possibly open the virtualbox where the windows guest reside.
But recently I find a trick so the user from server linux can use virtualbox as well.
The only user that exist both in local and server is root so basicly the trick is you run Virtualbox as root.
1. Open /etc/network/interfaces and change "tunctl_user user" into "tunctl_user root" ( see previous log )
2. Open /etc/sudoers and add the line "%vboxusers ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL"
3. Edit menu Application->System Tools->VirtualBox and change the command in properties section from "VirtualBox" into "sudo VirtualBox"
4. Reboot computer.
If step 3 is not working you could always create a script called "VirtualBox.sh" contains command "sudo VirtualBox"
All this steps is working well for me and hopefully will work fine for you as well.
Thanks.
PS :
I'm using Server : Fedora 8 with FDS and Client Ubuntu 7.10
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