How To Download Linux In Virtualbox

Enter a name and select linux as the type.

How to download linux in virtualbox. Install oracle enterprise linux on virtualbox. Any ideas on how to proceed. Download and install virtualbox. Choose the package that matches your linux distribution or use the all distributions option if your linux distribution is not listed. Place the downloaded iso somewhere you can access like in your desktop open virtualbox and click on new then give a name for your guest os.

You can also use the wget options to download it on the linux platforms like ubuntu. Select ubuntu 64 as the version. Give the virtual os a relevant name. Download the correct version for your operating system. The package architecture has to match the linux kernel architecture that is if you are running a 64 bit kernel install the appropriate amd64 package it does not matter if you have an intel or an amd cpu.

Choose an amount of ram to allocate. Virtualbox is present in the official repositories of ubuntu apt install virtualbox. Now you need to download the virtualbox software from. Click erase disk. Then you can install the virtualbox extension sudo apt install virtualbox ext pack.

Download virtualbox for linux hosts. I attached a photo of what i see after step 4. Open virtualbox and click new. I gave it 3 gbs of ram and 10 gb of harddrive space used linux 18 3 cinnamon desktop. You have installed virtualbox and you have downloaded the iso for linux.

To install virtualbox anyway you need to. As you can see the file size is well over 3 gb you should either use the torrent option or download it using a download manager. Click on new button given in the menu to create an oracle vm machine. I used the linux mint 18 3 iso. Download the latest version of ubuntu.