Canonical has released Alpha 1 of the Ubuntu 10.4 distro slated for GA release late April 2010. Over the coming weeks, I will be capturing my installation and testing of the Ubuntu alpha releases and attempting to do so with some videos.
The main method I’ll be using includes Virtual Box to leverage the hardware I have on a Windows host. I don’t have hardware acceleration on this particular Windows host as the CPU doesn’t support this feature.
Once I feel comfortable with the alpha release and the capture of the progress, I’ll move it over to my Ubuntu 9.10 server for some X-Windows execution. Basically:
- Ubuntu 9.10 SERVER – Virtual machine host
- Ubuntu 10.4 Alpha – Virtual machine guest
- XMing to leverage X Windows to deliver the Ubuntu 10.4 desktop to any of my networked machines
- With the last bullet, I will use Virtual Boxes “headless” capabilities to connect natively, I think/hope
More to come…
