Installing VirtualBox to your Computerīefore we can get started, we need to install the VirtualBox software on your computer. VirtualBox even offers support for the Windows operating system and can be run on Linux, macOS, and Solaris operating systems. While incredibly useful, this subsystem doesn’t allow you to use Ubuntu’s graphical interface.Īdjusting these steps slightly will allow you to install numerous other operating systems to your VirtualBox virtual machine, not just Ubuntu. Those running Windows might be wondering why you wouldn’t just use something like Windows Subsystem for Linux. If we managed to break anything, we could re-install Ubuntu in just a few minutes, all without leaving our existing OS. In our case, we will be using VirtualBox on our Windows PC to install Ubuntu 18.04.5.īy using a virtual machine, we can quickly experiment with stuff. Installing Ubuntu to a VirtualBox machine is a relatively straightforward process.įor this to work, you will need to have the operating system’s image that you want to run on the virtual machine. This machine will have its own virtualized disk and access to a part of your system’s CPU and memory.
This software creates a virtual machine on top of your OS.
VirtualBox is a virtualization software that allows you to run other x86 based operating systems on top of your existing OS. This tutorial will show you how to install the Ubuntu operating system to a VirtualBox virtual machine.
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