Press CTRL + ALT + T to open the terminal again. Press ENTER to close the window when this pages shows up. Type in your password and click Authenticate. Type in “exit” then press ENTER to close the terminal window when the installation is completed.Ĭlick Devices on the tool bar and choose Insert Guest Additions CD image….
Type in “y” and press ENTER when this page shows up.
#Virtual optical disk file ubuntu 64 bit install
Type in this command and press ENTER: sudo apt install build-essential dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r) to prepare for full-screening your virtual machine.Įnter you password which is invisible then press ENTER. Press CRTL + ALT + T to open the terminal.
#Virtual optical disk file ubuntu 64 bit update
It may take quite a while.Ĭlick OK when the update finishes. Keep clicking Skip or Next or Done until you get to the desktop.Ĭlick Install now if you want to update now. And wait for a while.Ĭlick the user and type in your password then press ENTER to enter. It may take quite a while.Ĭlick Restart Now when the installation is completed. Click “Download updates while installing Ubuntu” and unclick “Install third-part software…”. For studying basic Linux, choosing “Minimal installation” is sufficient for now and will save some time downloading and installing all sorts of things. Ĭhoose “Normal installation” or “Minimal installation” as you like. In this case, I just choose the default one. Go to Storage on the same page and click “Empty” with a CD pattern in front of it.Ĭlick the other CD pattern next to “Optical Drive: IDE Secondary Device 0” (shown in the picture above) and then Click “Choose a disk file…” and then go to the folder which stores the Ubuntu iso file just downloaded and choose the Ubuntu iso file.Ĭlick “Install Ubuntu” when this page shows up.Ĭhoose the keyboard layout. This is needed for full-screening the virtual machine later on. Go to Settings then Dispaly, increase the value of “Video Memory” to 128 MB. What we need for now is the Ubuntu virtual machine called “ubuntu”.) (Ignore the one called “alpine”, it’s just another virtual machine I’ve created. Keep clicking Next or Create until you’ve created the Ubuntu virtual machine. Select “Linux” for “Type” and “Ubuntu (64-bit)” for “Version” (if your compute and the iso file you downloaded are 64-bit of course). Type whatever you like for the name of the virtual machine to be created. Go to Ubuntu website () and download Ubuntu 20.04 iso file which is around 2.86 GB. Go to Oracle VirtualBox’s website () and download the latest version depending on your system.
Download the VirtualBox and Ubuntu iso file