Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

This will open a new window from where one can install the operating system.Right click on Virtual machine and select the Start->Normal Start option.Select the ISO image and click on the Open button.Select Storage->Empty->Optical Drive->Choose Virtual Disk Optical File.Right click on the newly created virtual machine and select the settings.

To install the operating system, perform the steps given below: In this article, Ubuntu 18.04 is being used. To install the operating system, we need an ISO image. Figure 3: Configuring virtual machine Figure 4: Selecting virtual disk This virtual machine is useless without an operating system. The virtual machine has now been created.

Select the file location and size then click on the Create button.

Select ‘Dynamically allocated’ as the storage option.

Select the ‘ Create a virtual hard disk now’ option as a brand new virtual machine is being created.

Provide memory for the virtual machine.

To create the virtual machine, perform the following steps: Just like any other physical system, it has memory, a CPU, a network, storage and other ‘peripheral devices’. If everything goes fine, you should see the window of the VirtualBox manager, as shown in Figure 1.Ī virtual machine is an emulation of a computer system. After downloading the installer, just double-click on it and follow the on-screen instructions. VirtualBox’s installation on Windows is pretty straightforward, just like any other software.

At the time of writing this article, the VirtualBox version was 5.2.18.

Virtualbox linux server