Convert a USB Flash IMG File to VDI for use in VirtualBox

Now a days, you find lots of Operating Systems packaged as a IMG file, meant to be copied to a portable disk like a USB pen drive. For instance, Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Moblin  are available as a IMG files. Now if you are interested in running these operating system flash images  in VirtualBox, you will have to convert the IMG file to a VDI file (VirtualBox image).

Here is how you do it.
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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions In Ubuntu Linux

VirtualBox Guest Additions are a set of drivers and utilities which are installed always in the guest OS. Once installed, they improve the performance of the guest OS and its cooperation with rest of the product and even the host OS.
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Create an Ubuntu Guest in VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a robust, easy to use, and  freely available open source software developed by Sun Microsystems. VirtualBox allows you to run different Operating Systems in virtualization mode.  For example, you can run Windows in Linux or vice versa using VirtualBox. I have put together a visual guide explaining how to create a new Ubuntu Virtual Machine in VirtualBox. Watch the video.

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