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. This will allow you to copy and paste between your virtual and host machines, useful when you want to copy outputs from one device to the other.By Michael Bose How to Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox: Detailed Overview This will improve the performance of your virtual machine by taking advantage of your PC’s 3D hardware and allow you to resize your desktop resolution!Īnother feature this unlocks is the shared clipboard, which you can activate in Devices > Shared Clipboard. Once this is complete, you will need to restart your virtual machine for the new features to take effect.Ĭlose the machine, but before you start it up again, return to the Settings menu and change the Graphics Controller back to VMSVGA and Enable 3D Acceleration.
The disc will appear inside your virtual desktop and you will be prompted to run the software. This will prompt you to download the Guest Additions disk image file.
To install Guest Additions, you need to complete your installation of Ubuntu in your virtual machine and boot to the desktop.įrom there, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD.
This includes better integration between your virtual machine and the host machine, as well as improved video support that enables the display resolution options when using VMSVGA. Guest Additions is an extra piece of software that unlocks some more advanced features of VirtualBox.
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