

Your CPU (Central Processor Unit) must support Intel VT-x or AMD-v hardware virtualization features which must also be enabled in UEFI/BIOS. In order to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox, you should have a physical computer with at least 4 GB of RAM (Random Access Memory), a hard disk drive with at least 30 GB of free space (SSD is preferred due to its higher performance). Make sure that VirtualBox is installed on your physical machine before proceeding. The operating system (OS) runs on a physical machine is referred to as a host OS, and the operating system run on a VM is called a guest OS (Ubuntu in this case).

Today’s blog post explains how to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox as a virtual machine (VM) has a lot of advantages – you can create a snapshot and roll back changes to the appropriate VM state if something goes wrong, clone a VM, copy a VM to another machine easily (all VM data is stored as a set of files), or run a VM on different host operating systems that are supported by VirtualBox. Whether you are looking to try out some software, prepare for migration to Linux from Windows or macOS, test applications, network, or otherwise, you need to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox. If you see that your graphics may become blurry or jerky, you can disable 3D transparency effects by right-clicking on the desktop, then select Personlize -> Appearance –> Disable transparency effects.By Michael Bose How to Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox: Detailed Overview To accomplish this, you can select the Display-icon at the bottom-right of the VirtualBox ( ) -> Virtual Screen 1 –> Resize to 1440×900. It might be handy to increase the resolution if the VirtualBox. For the shared folder, we recommend usning your Downloads folder in Linux for your VirtualBox Downloads. Now run the setup: just double-click the VBoxWindowsAdditions executable file.Īfter the installation, you should be able to set a shared folder, set shared clipboard to bi-directional and set the bi-directional drag-and-drop function. Then you can find the VirtualBox Guest Additions virtual CD drive under the file explorer -> This PC.

On the top bar of your virtual machine, click on Devices -> Insert guest additions CD image. Installing the Guest additions add-on is pretty straight-forward, luckily. To accomplish this, we will have to install the guest additions software of Oracle.
