I recently decided to try VirtualBox because I wanted an alternative to VMware Server 2.0 which I find to be clunky and buggy compared with the VMware 1.x series.  After a couple of hours of fiddling with VirtualBox and an Ubuntu Jaunty guest – I am very happy with how nicely VirtualBox works.

Particularly, I am pleased with how the graphics driver works once you have installed the “Guest Additions” which are the equivalent on VMware tools, but *much* simpler to installer.

This is what I did: