Typically Ubuntu shows a few text logging messages as it shuts down.If you see the "Please remove the installation medium, then press ENTER:" message, go ahead and press ENTER - VirtualBox should remove the (virtual) CD (actually a ".iso" file) automatically.Eventually you see the "Installation Complete" message.
Write down that password on a sticky note.After entering your user name and password and hitting "continue", Ubuntu will take many minutes install.Hit the "Continue" button a few more times. You are at the "Installation Type" window, still inside the "testUbuntu14 - Oracle VM VirtualBox" window, right? We accept the default "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" and hit the "Install Now" button.(The "Encrypt my home folder" option has apparently been removed, in response to bug #1756840. (Optional) When you reach the "Installation Type" window, there's also an "Advanced Features." button here if you want full-disk encryption.We choose keyboard layout, etc., hitting "Continue" a few times.
vdi file that acts like a fresh, empty hard drive.Įxactly the same we would on a physical machine with a physical fresh, empty hard drive.
In the "Optical Disk Selector" window, click on the ISO image you just downloaded and hit "Choose". Then pick the ISO image you just downloaded and hit "open".
If the ISO image you just downloaded isn't already visible, hit the big green plus sign ("+") to bring up a file chooser. Hit the little folder icon next to the drop-down box to bring up the "Optical Disk Selector" window.
(This was tested installing Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS as a guest in VirtualBox-6.1 on a Windows 10 host. Setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine is easy. It doesn't matter if your host OS is Linux, MacOS, or something else. Once you have VirtualBox installed on your host computer.