UBUNTU LINUX 8.04 WITH VIRTUALBOX OSE RUNNING WINDOWS XP

I'll have to admit - there is some applications that more or less will *ONLY* run under Windows.

I've got such a program (Mamut Buisness Solutions). That's why I always have to do a dualboot with ubuntu/win. This has been a source for fustration and physical pain. With Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Hardy Heron I finally found a soulution! I've been trying with Wine to get Windows applications to run under linux - some do, but not Mamut. Then I found VirtualBox, and with the OSE version I managed to install Windows XP "out of the box" on Ubuntu.

This is really great, and I can finally drop dualboots :-)

A howto will come soon, but it's really straight forward...

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