

This portion will only be accessible to your virtual operating system, i.e., Ubuntu in this case. You’ll also need to allocate a portion of your hard disk to the virtual machine. It is like installing any regular software on Windows. 1 Create a host only network in the Virtualbox GUI 2 Create a new VM and install Ubuntu Server (tested with 16.04.2) 3 Make sure sshd is installed and running. iso file is selected and then click the Choose button. exe file and follow the instructions on the screen. iso file, select it by clicking on it once, and then click the Open button.

Installing VirtualBox is not rocket science. But when installation is done, I use to face a black screen once ubuntu loading screen has passed. When Im installing, every seems to work fine.

For instance, if you have 16GB total RAM, allocate 4GB to the virtual machine. Go to the website of Oracle VirtualBox and get the latest stable version from here: Download VirtualBox. Im trying to run ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64 in VirtualBox 6.12 (Version 6.1.32 r149290 (Qt5.6.2) running in Windows 10 Pro. Ideally, you should choose to allocate about a fourth of your PC’s RAM. Allocate Memory size to your virtual machine.
