

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.

Still get the same problem of it not being found.Īny ideas? I've google searched and it seems like I'm the only person experiencing this problem.By Michael Bose How to Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox: Detailed Overview Thanks guys but WHERE is this "installation directory of Oracle VM Virtualbox" ? Is it on the HOST machine or Guest? I've tried placing the file in my ~/VirtualBox VMS/ubuntuvm/ directory but. To install the Guest Additions for a particular VM, you mount this ISO file in your VM as a virtual CD-ROM and install from there.

This image file is located in the installation directory of Oracle VM VirtualBox. The 3rd time around after screwing with the thing for hours downloaded the VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.14.iso to my host machine.īut Virtualbox docs are pretty unclear what to do from here: Do you wish to download? I say YES and then get an error: failed reason unknown. When I try to do that, I get an error: Could not find the virtualbox guest additions disk image file. So I google and everyone says to install the guest additions. Instead I get a ton of empty space around the vm even in full screen mode.

My end goal is to get my VM to be full screen.
