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Most people don’t realize that making a backup of a VirtualBox Machine (.vdi) is more complex than just copy/paste. If you do that, you’ll soon realize (when it’s too late) that it doesn’t work! This is the proper way to backup your VirtualBox machine:

VBoxManage clonevdi source destination

Example:
VBoxManage clonevdi ~/.VirtualBox/VDI/WindowsXP.vdi ~/WindowsXP_Backup.vdi

Then, wait for it to complete. It may take a while depending on the size of your .vdi file (or how much space you allocated towards your virtual machine).

Activating Seamless Integration

With the release of VirtualBox 1.5.0 (the version you just installed via the Ubuntu repositories) Innotek added the seamless integration feature. This is similar to what is available on Parallels on Mac, allowing you to run individual applications from a virtual environment seamlessly on your native desktop.

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As I have seen heaps of topics now in regards USB and different problems, I deceided to post my solution which I have created doing a lot of reading through the all loved www.

It is now all working fine for me and I have experienced all problems, a lot of you guys have or had.
USB not there, USB greyed out, only working without USB 2.0 etc.This would be basically just a summarize of a few topics out of this forum. Please note, I don’t wont credit at all, as this is nothing else then a collection of different information I found.

The running host is Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) with a Windows XP SP2 guest. After successful installation I installed the client extensions to get the shared folders and a few other nice things running. USB turned out to be a bit of a pain.

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