Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2012 February 20

= February 20 =

Ubuntu on Windows
I currently have a dual-boot system with Ubuntu and Windows installed on separate partitions. Is it possible to launch Ubuntu within Windows, using something like VirtualBox? Ideally I want to use the existing installation, and don't want to install Ubuntu all over again. --140.180.6.154 (talk) 04:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)


 * You can use the freeware VMWare converter to convert your Ubuntu partition into a VMWare image. IIRC, VirtualBox is able to import such image files. This will of course result in two separate Ubuntu installations - changes made when running one will not be reflected in the other. If you want that option there may be another solution of which I am unaware.  AJ Sham  12:12, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

VMware and QEMU can do that in certain situations. ¦ Reisio (talk) 14:59, 20 February 2012 (UTC)


 * In what ways, and what situations? Can you point me to a tutorial about how to do this?  --140.180.6.154 (talk) 07:14, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Last I checked VMware could do it with separate PATA drives only, and QEMU theoretically can do any type of drive or partition. For QEMU there's some syntax like  (where 0 is the first device), but I've read a lot about being able to just use   or   (for [two] examples), too. Apparently it's a tricky business so you either run it read-only or your have to make some sort of write buffer. On Windows you'll want to use KQEMU with QEMU or it'll be quite slow. You can also try using QEMU (or better yet KVM, the in-kernel progression of QEMU) from Linux to boot your physical Windows install instead. ¦ Reisio (talk) 15:58, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Youtube playlists not working in Safari
Hello. I noticed a few days ago that my playlists weren't working on Youtube. It would load the first video and then any other video I tried to go to on the list would just play the first video again (despite the fact that it was labelled as the video I was supposed to be going to). I then tried playing several other user's playlists and found the same thing. How do I fix this? I'm using Safari Version 5.0.6 and I don't think I need to update anything. Thanks! 129.3.151.202 (talk) 06:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * do you have javascript disãbled? 190.60.93.218 (talk) 13:13, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it says it's enabled. 129.3.151.202 (talk) 01:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)