James Bannan25 December 2008, 12:00 PM
Want to run Ubuntu Linux within Mac OS X for free -- without paying for Parallels or VMWare? Our step-by-step tutorial will have you up and running in no time!
Page 2 - Step 2 - Install VirtualBox
Before we start, a quick note about our choice of virtualization platforms. There are other options available for Mac OS X, such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion.
While either of these options is more than acceptable, we chose VirtualBox because we wanted to base the tutorial on a platform which was free, whereas the others are excellent but proprietary.
During testing we were very impressed with VirtualBox, and are using it as the platform for all our virtualization tutorials.
To install VirtualBox, download the VirtualBox DMG package. Open the downloaded file to mount the disk image (or it may automatically open from some browsers) and then double-click the VirtualBox.mpkg to launch the installer.
Click Continue
On the License Agreement page, click Continue and then Agree
Select the hard drive you want to install to and click Continue, and then Install. Once installed, launch VirtualBox from your Applications folder.