- Open VirtualBox and select New . A new window will come out.
- Choose your guest OS and architecture (32 vs. 64 bit, e.g select Ubuntu)
- Set your Base Memory (RAM)
- Click next until it show the vm storage size. Put how much space you need depending on your hardisk and finish the wizard by clicking the
createbutton. - On VirtualBox main window, select START and pick your MEDIA SOURCE. In your case, select the .iso on your desktop.
- Finish the installation as normal install.
- Remove your installation .iso from the virtual optical disk drive before restarting the VM.
- Install Guest Additions.
Follow this guide:
Open Virtualbox and click at New button.
Setup Wizard will appear and click at Next button.
Enter your Virtual Machine name, and choose your guest OS and architecture (32- vs. 64-bit) from the dropdown menu and click Next button.
A 64-bit guest needs the CPU virtualization technology (VT-x AMD/V) to be enabled in BIOS.
Enter memory (RAM) to reserve for your virtual machine and click Next button.
Leave enough memory to the host OS.
Tick at Startup Disk and Create New Hard disk and click at Next button.
Choose the type of file that you want to use for virtual disk and click Next button.
Choose your storage detail and click Next button.
Enter the size of your virtual disk (in MB) and click Next button.
A dynamically growing virtual disk will only use the amount of physical hard drive space it needs. It is better to be rather generous to avoid running out of guest hard drive space.
You will see the detail of your input here. Click Create button to continue.
The "New Virtual Machine Wizard" will close and back to VirtualBox Manager. Select your Virtual Machine and click Start button.
"First Run Wizard" will appear and click Next button.
Click at 'folder' icon and choose your Ubuntu iso directory.
Select your Ubuntu iso file and click Next button.
In 'Summary' box, click Start button.
This screen will appear when it start boot.
After a successful installation we have to remove our installation .iso image from the virtual optical drive before we reboot. This can be done from the "Devices" menu or by removing the .iso from the VM settings:
For smooth graphics, and to be able to use shared folders it is recommended to install the guest additions.
Answer from penreturns on askubuntu.com- Open VirtualBox and select New . A new window will come out.
- Choose your guest OS and architecture (32 vs. 64 bit, e.g select Ubuntu)
- Set your Base Memory (RAM)
- Click next until it show the vm storage size. Put how much space you need depending on your hardisk and finish the wizard by clicking the
createbutton. - On VirtualBox main window, select START and pick your MEDIA SOURCE. In your case, select the .iso on your desktop.
- Finish the installation as normal install.
- Remove your installation .iso from the virtual optical disk drive before restarting the VM.
- Install Guest Additions.
Follow this guide:
Open Virtualbox and click at New button.
Setup Wizard will appear and click at Next button.
Enter your Virtual Machine name, and choose your guest OS and architecture (32- vs. 64-bit) from the dropdown menu and click Next button.
A 64-bit guest needs the CPU virtualization technology (VT-x AMD/V) to be enabled in BIOS.
Enter memory (RAM) to reserve for your virtual machine and click Next button.
Leave enough memory to the host OS.
Tick at Startup Disk and Create New Hard disk and click at Next button.
Choose the type of file that you want to use for virtual disk and click Next button.
Choose your storage detail and click Next button.
Enter the size of your virtual disk (in MB) and click Next button.
A dynamically growing virtual disk will only use the amount of physical hard drive space it needs. It is better to be rather generous to avoid running out of guest hard drive space.
You will see the detail of your input here. Click Create button to continue.
The "New Virtual Machine Wizard" will close and back to VirtualBox Manager. Select your Virtual Machine and click Start button.
"First Run Wizard" will appear and click Next button.
Click at 'folder' icon and choose your Ubuntu iso directory.
Select your Ubuntu iso file and click Next button.
In 'Summary' box, click Start button.
This screen will appear when it start boot.
After a successful installation we have to remove our installation .iso image from the virtual optical drive before we reboot. This can be done from the "Devices" menu or by removing the .iso from the VM settings:
For smooth graphics, and to be able to use shared folders it is recommended to install the guest additions.
Installing Ubuntu under virtual box
- open virtualbox
- than click New
- then click Next
- Set name something like Ubuntu 12.04 (it will automaticly set type to linux)
- Set memory f.e. 1024 MB
- Select Create new hard disk
- Select VDI then Next
- Select Dynamically allocated then Next
- Set location(let it stay its default) and its size (f.e 20GB) then Next
- Then Create
- Then again Create
- Here is two ways
- Install from .iso
- Install from DVD
- Install from .iso
- Start VM
- There select what kind of installation you want(from iso or from dvd)
- then the installation will start
Installing Ubuntu through Virtual Box
Run Ubuntu virtual machine on Windows 10 host
Windows 10 Virtualbox under Ubuntu 22.04
How to activate Windows 10 inside a virtual box VM on Ubuntu?
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I was trying to load ubuntu through my virtual box and I found out I needed a USB so I downloaded balenaEtcher and put the ubuntu.iso through the USB using balena but my Flash Drive won't show on my Mac Air Desktop. It shows on the Utility Disk but I cannot access it on the finder.
Another thing is if I want to access my USB drive I have to go on Utility Disk and erase it.
How do I fix this issue
RESOLVED
You may improve your host environment for Ubuntu 24.04 by these steps:
- Get and install the latest VirtualBox
- Restart your computer and check the CPU settings in BIOS: Intel VT-x or AMD-V should be enabled
- Last but the most important: disable Hyper-V with the following command in an elevated PowerShell prompt:
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor
i had the same issue because my hardware was really old, so my laptop didn't supported virtualization.
maybe it's the same problem with you. Just go to the BIOS when you boot your PC and then check if virtualization is enabled. If it's not enabled then enable it and try to install again. It should get installed, but if not then redownload the .iso setup file, and maybe if your hardware doesn't support virtualization then you can't install Ubuntu or any OS, so simply install it as a primary OS if you want.
thanks.
Hello,
I recently encountered an issue where I was unable to maintain a stable Ubuntu virtual machine running on a Windows 10 host. I attempted to install various versions of Ubuntu, including 22.04.03, 20.04, and 23.04, aiming to utilize basic features such as clipboard sharing and file drag-and-drop between the host and virtual machines. Unfortunately, all attempts with these Ubuntu versions were unsuccessful. I used VMware 7.5 and VirtualBox 7.0.14 for the virtualization, but both encountered issues.
VMware Failures:
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For Ubuntu 20.04, the system sometimes does not accept keyboard and mouse inputs after the Ubuntu screensaver is activated. Additionally, it sometimes does not allow file copying via drag and drop.
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For Ubuntu 22.04.03 and 23.04, both systems occasionally do not accept the drag-and-drop feature. It appears that 22.04.03 is somewhat more stable, but still not sufficiently reliable.
VirtualBox Failures:
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With Ubuntu 22.04.03, I am unable to install Guest Additions at all. Attempting to access the mounted drive with the Guest Additions results in a "not responding" message.
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For Ubuntu 23.04, while I can install Guest Additions, upgrading them fails. Clipboard sharing is functional, but drag and drop is not, displaying a "Drag and drop operation from host to guest failed" message.
Has anyone successfully managed to run Ubuntu in a virtual machine hosted by Windows 10, particularly with these features working smoothly?