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Fedora 14 was released last Nov 2, 2010, awfully long time ago in the Linux world. Anyway, I am just documenting here how it looks like installing Fedora 14 in VirtualBox. I have done this for the top 5 distributions and I am gonna do this for Fedora again. In terms of the installation screens, nothing much that meets the eye. I have no doubt that internally much has changed. Anyway, what follows are the screen capture while I was installing Fedora 14. As usual, you can use the images as you see fit, no need for permission. Figure 1. Boot splash Figure 2. Live installer login screen Figure 3. Live installer desktop Figure 4. Installer first screen Figure 5. Keyboard Selection Figure 6. Initialize disk Figure 7. Set machine hostname Figure 8. Storage Type Figure 8a. Figure 9. Root password Figure 10. Storage allocation Figure 11. Timezone selection Figure 12. Installation complete Figure 13. Welcome screen Figure 14. License Information Figure ...

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Alpha 2 was released last February 3, 2011. I have it installed on VirtualBox 4.0.2 with Windows 7 Professional as the host. Installation was smooth and uneventful. But installing VirtualBox guest addition that comes with the default installer seems like incompatible with Ubuntu Natty Alpha 2. Here is what I got when I tried to install: Warning: unsupported pre-release of X.org Server Installed It seems like some changes has to be done before it will work with this version of Ubuntu. But since VirtualBox does have an open source version of the guest additions, this can be used instead of the stock version. To do this, you have to: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 Reboot and enjoy Ubuntu Alpha 2!!!! Updates: [23March2011]: Since 21March2011, Guest Additions that comes with VirtualBox 4.0.4 does not work anymore. Updated my copy today and installed the above packages and it sav...