Add the lines in bold:

…
Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “vboxvideo”
EndSection
…
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
EndSection
…

Restart the system and you should have the maximum video resolution your video hardware allows, automatic mouse capturing within the virtual machine window, shared clipboard and the other stuff.

I managed to download the iso nowithstanding the busy servers.

I will try it firstly on a virtual machine using VirtualBox then on my notebook I will try the “upgrade” way (but I am ready to deal with a potential reinstall if something goes wrong).

More on Ubuntu site.

I have tried the beta release on a virtual machine at work using VirtualBox and it looks promising.

I while after the release I will try to upgrade mi notebook an post my experience here.

Stay tuned.

The upgrade process is really easy by the way!

While bringing it back I caught the opportunity to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3.
I hope it exposes less security holes.

Please expect some malfunctions while I am checking all works as expected.

Some updates on the installation experience.

1. The webcam works in Ekiga even if the image quality is poor (noise and greenish colors)
2. Got suspend to work by following the suggestions contained here
3. Installed gnome-bluetooth package and made gnome-obex-server program to autostart by adding it to the session (see in the Preferences menu): this allows you to receive files from bluetooth devices (sending shoud be already working)
4. Installed bluez-gnome package containing the bluetooth-applet: this applet (and a new preference program) notifies you of bluetooth system events and deals with device pairing PIN entry.

I am making some bluetooth connection experiments. I got it to successfully connect and operate with a Nokia 6600 mobile phone (file exchange), an HP iPAQ PDA (file and single vcards exchange only no full contacts synchronization yet), a Nokia BH205 headset (audio) and a Tom Tom GPS receiver (geographical position) but this is something not for the casual user.

You’ve just checked out the HEAD revision out of the GIMP code repository (as roughly written here) and created your shiny local working copy, you fire up the terminal, read the HACKING file and find that you must have a lot of software development tools installed (a compile tool-chain). After all GIMP is a very big and complex GNOME/Gtk/X-window application (maybe one of the biggest if not the biggest).

You may now wonder which packages do I need to install on Ubuntu to get all the stuff I need to successfully compile GIMP?

Usually the trial and error process involves launching the compile process (autogen.sh and configure scripts in our case), look for errors caused by missing modules/libraries, lookup on the Ubuntu package database site which package the library/module belongs to and then install that package.

I went trough that process once, I report here my findings for the lazy programmer.

To compile the GIMP on Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” you must have the following packages installed:

• build-essential
• bison
• libglib2.0-dev
• libgtk2.0-dev
• gtk-doc-tools
• libart-2.0-dev
• python-dev
• python-gtk2-dev
• libtiff-dev

Depending on the extra functionality you would like to have (such as reading and writing some image file formats) you may also need the following optional packages installed:

• libmng-dev
• libxpm-dev
• libexif-dev
• libwmf-dev
• libgnomeui-dev
• librsvg2-dev
• libgtkhtml2-dev
• libpoppler-dev
• libpoppler-glib-dev

For the lazyest programmers here are the two apt-get lines (beware of line wrapping) to have those packages installed at once:

sudo apt-get install build-essential bison libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev gtk-doc-tools libart-2.0-dev python-dev python-gtk2-dev libtiff-dev

sudo apt-get install libmng-dev libxpm-dev libexif-dev libwmf-dev libgnomeui-dev librsvg2-dev libgtkhtml2-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev

That’s all folks, happy compiling!