[NTLUG:Discuss] virtual box and multiple OS's

[Ralph Green]

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 15:49 -0500, lonestar17 wrote:
> Hello-All,
>    Anybody have experience with VB?    I have a good running Ubuntu 
> 10.10 and wanted to try Mint 11 as a 2nd OS.  Since Ubuntu went to 
> ((unity)) it's no longer a friendly distro!!
>    When I try to click ADD in VB menu for a new OS, this is the response:
> 
> Cannot create the machine folder mint in the parent folder C:/Users/user 
> only me/VirtualBox VMs. Please check that the parent really exists and 
> that you have permissions to create the machine folder.
>    From all the sites I've visited, I see nothing regarding this 
> problem.   NOW, I have Mint installed and running OK, in Admin. mode??  
> Which I never use, only work in standard mode, where I have Ubuntu 10.10 
> installed and running OK....Why can't I add Mint in standard mode?
>    I see all the screen shots on various sites of multiple OS"s 
> installed in ONE instance of VirtualBox..
>    What am I missing here??
John,
  I see several potential things.  It could easily be the spaces in the
file name.  You also have this strange C: thing.  Ubuntu does not have a
directory like that.  I don't know what admin mode is.  I use VirtualBox
every day and I have never seen anything in it called Admin mode.

 I am not a big fan of Unity.  But, I have fixed most of the problems
that really annoy me the most about it.  If you use Ubuntu 11.04, there
is a perfectly fine Gnome 2.30 included.  It is just like the Ubuntu
desktop you have known for a while.  I wrote an article for the
ntlug.org website about how to take those rough edges off of Ubuntu
11.04.  It is available at:
     http://www.ntlug.org/Articles/CustomizeUbuntu
 It also has a small addendum about Ubuntu 11.10.  When 11.10 is
finalized, I'll figure out whether to write a separate article about
11.10 or just keep a addendum, or what.  11.10 includes Gnome 3.2.
Gnome 3 has something that I think is called fallback mode, since it is
intended as a fallback for systems that don't support 3d graphics.  It
is almost like Gnome 2, but does not have support for applets.  You
might be OK with it.

 Finally, after I got rid of the global menu in Unity, I found I liked
Unity a lot better.  I still prefer Gnome 2, especially on systems I
control with VNC, but Unity is growing on me a bit. 
Good luck,
Ralph