Need help with VM Virtual Bo

[QuantumPhysics]

Here is the story. I want to use Ubuntu on the Oracle Virtual box that I installed from their website. I am running windows 7. I needed to install an .iso image file to run ubuntu on the vm. So i went to the website to install the ubuntu file. I clicked install and selected the 32 bit flavour. It popped up at the bottom on my screen downloading... It was installing into winrar. I waited the 12 minutes for it to install the 700MiB's. After installing I opened the folder. Apparently I was supposed to see a single .iso file inside the folder that I installed. But instead I saw a ton of folders in their with random crap. The folder were named in order: .disk, boot, dists, doc, efi, install, isolinux, pics, pool presee, cdromupgrade, md5sum, README.diskdefines. Not one of those folders actually had a .iso file inside. I am very lost and I have searched google for 2 hours for an answer that I did not find. I really need some help. Can anyone here help me? I am very desperate for some help.

I tried re-installing the 700MB file again and it still gave me the same file. I really need help.

Thanks,
~QP

[Zren]

Isn't the 700 mb file the iso? WinRAR will open it like a regular zip file as an iso is just another file container format. Basically you just viewed the files/folders on the cd image.

[QuantumPhysics]

But how do i actually get the .iso file? not view the files inside, because the actual file doesnt appear once i click the winrar file it opens that

[Zren]

. . .

Don't 'open' the file. You downloaded/saved it somewhere onto your computer right? You use VirtualBox to select the iso file.

Also: .iso is the file extension. If you haven't already done so: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Show-or-hide-file-name-extensions That will allow you to see file extensions (as normally it's hidden by default on windows).

Wait. Are you talking about http://virtualboxes.org/images/ubuntu/ or http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop ?

[QuantumPhysics]

the second one.

[Zren]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox

[QuantumPhysics]

Ooooh, all i had to do was select the winrar file. Lol, I feel like such a moron now. Thanks a lot Zren! Thank you very much.

[QuantumPhysics]

Wait uh oh. Now on boot it says, this kernel requires x86 - 64 CPU to boot please select another to boot, i assume i installed the wrong version. I selected the amd version

[Zren]

I'm going to assume you're not retarded and downloaded the amd x64 version when you don't have an 64 bit amd cpu.

So that probably means you haven't enabled virtualization in your boot options.

[QuantumPhysics]

No, i didnt download the amd version, the file i installed gave me amd, i386, i686, and x86

[Zren]

Okay. What's you CPU? Is it AMD or Intel? Is it 32 bit or 64 bit?

[QuantumPhysics]

amd 64 bit

[Zren]

So you downloaded this? http://releases.ubuntu.com//precise/ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
Also, what's your motherboard? Use this: http://www.piriform.com/speccy

[QuantumPhysics]

AMD A10-4600M
Trinity 32mm technology
11 Degrees

Motherboard is AMD Pumori (Socket FT1)

[Zren]

This page tells us you have hardware virtualization for your cpu: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A10-4600M-Notebook-Processor.74065.0.html

Have you ever gone into your computer's BIOS?

I'm going to take the safe path and assume you haven't. Use these tools to find out if you have virtualization enabled.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/configure-bios.aspx

If it's not enabled, you're going to have to go into your computers BIOS and enable it.