[olug] Virtualization Questions

[Joe Gulizia]

I'm looking at adding a Windows XP virtualizatiion to my work linux machine (Kubuntu 9.04)...

I have Windows XP Home on one disk drive and Kubuntu on another hard drive.

Is there a way to get the Windows XP to display in a VM window?

I've tried both VirtualBox -ose (which gives and error...see below) and Qemu which gives me several options....don't know which Windows file to call up for sure.


Googling hasn't given me much luck unless I'm not reading correctly or not finding the correct links (help appreciated on any links)

I can access the "C", "C0", "C1" and "D" drives from within "/media" if that helps.


Here's the VirtualBox error:

Virtual Box gives me the following error messages:

PROMPT BOX ONE:

Title:  VirtualBox - Error


Virtual machine 'Virtual' has terminated unexpectedly during startup.


Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: 
Machine
Interface: 
IMachine {ea6fb7ea-1993-4642-b113-f29eb39e0df0}

PROMPT BOX TWO:

Title:  VirtualBox -  Error in suplibOsInit


VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Re-setup the kernel module by executing

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'

as root. Users of Ubuntu or Fedora should install the DKMS package at first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

I cannot find 'vboxdrv' in /etc/init.d


I also tryed QEMU but it brought up my Windows drives and I'm not sure what directory or file to call up to load them... instead of dual booting I'd like to run them virtual if possible since they are already set up.

I will be reading documentation as well as the virtualization article by Marcel Gagne in the latest Ubuntu User magazine.Thanks in advance,
Joe