Note that the VirtualBox package download architecture bit or bit has to match your Ubuntu Linux kernel architecture. That said, if you are using Ubuntu You can download VirtualBox 5. The listed downloads may be outdated if there has been a new release since this post was written. To check for and download the latest version of Virtualbox for Ubuntu You should be back to the main screen of Oracle VirtualBox.
You have everything ready now. Next step is to install Windows Click on Start from the main screen:. Note : At this time, if you see Windows logo with black background and it never starts to install, you may have to do a little tweak. I think you can handle things from here as installing Windows is just a matter of few clicks. For your convenience, I am adding the screenshots in a gallery. Click on the images to enlarge them, if you need to take a hint. No need for further configuration.
When you are done using the virtual Windows, you can go back to the main screen and switch off the virtual Windows from there:. If you have internet connection on your computer, you can check Download updates while installing Ubuntu to download all the necessary updates while installing Ubuntu on your computer. Just select Erase disk and install Ubuntu and click on Install Now. The Ubuntu installer will automatically create all the necessary partitions in your virtual hard drive.
If you need to do manual partitioning, check my article Installing Ubuntu Desktop Ubuntu installer should start copying all the necessary files to your virtual hard drive. It may take a while to complete. You should see the Ubuntu Desktop APT package manager will download and install all the required packages.
Now, you should be able to resize the VM window freely and the Ubuntu display size would automatically adjust itself. Finally, select the size of the virtual hard disk in megabytes. The default size of 10GB should be plenty, but feel free to increase this as you see fit. Then click Create. The hard disk should now be created and after a short while you should find yourself back in the VirtualBox Manager.
You should be able to see your newly created virtual machine listed on the left. Make sure your virtual machine is selected and press Start. VirtualBox Manager will ask you to select a virtual optical disk file or a physical optical drive to start the virtual machine from. Select the iso file you downloaded previously and press Start.
The Ubuntu installation process will now begin. It consists of thirteen steps and is quite painless. Here you should select a keyboard layout. Here Ubuntu will attempt to configure the standard network interface. Normally you can just accept the default and select Done. Then select Done. If you wish to use an alternative mirror for Ubuntu, you can enter the details here.
Otherwise accept the default mirror by selecting Done. How can I install Linux Ubuntu Looking to play around with Ubuntu to see whether or not you can handle Linux? However, you either need a spare computer or a spare hard drive on your current machine to run it. The free tool that I use is called VirtualBox. First, go ahead and download VirtualBox using the link above and install it. Once you have it running, go ahead and download the version of Ubuntu you want to run. I downloaded the Desktop version, which was a 1.
Note that once you are familiar with the process of setting up a virtual machine in VirtualBox, you can click on the Expert Mode button to get through all the settings much faster. The first time you should use the guided wizard. On the following screen, we have to choose the operating system.
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