How to virtualize Ubuntu on Vista

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James Bannan16 December 2008, 10:00 PM

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Want to virtualize Ubuntu on top of Windows Vista for free? Check out our step-by-step tutorial!

Page 3 - Create New Ubuntu VM

Step 3 - Create New Ubuntu VM

Click the New icon to start the New Virtual Machine Wizard,

Click Next
Type in "Ubuntu" as the name and select "Ubuntu" from the "OS Type" dropdown menu. Click Next

Assign as much memory as you like beyond the base memory recommendation. In this case 256MB is the recommended amount. Click Next

On the "Virtual Hard Disk" screen, click "New" to launch the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard, and click Next.
Choose whichever disk type you prefer. The advantage of a fixed-size image is that as all the space is reserved up front, there's an ongoing disk performance benefit as the image doesn't need to keep expanding as you use it. The downside is that all the space is used at once and it takes longer to create. Click Next
Name the image file accordingly and assign some space (at least 8GB for the Ubuntu boot disk). Click Next, and then Finish. The newly-created Ubuntu.vdi is now populated. Click Next and then Finish, and the VM is created

Continue to page 4: Install Ubuntu: Page 1 Intro; Page 2 Install VirtualBox; Page 3 Create New Ubuntu VM; Page 4 Install Ubuntu; Page 5 Install Guest Additions; Page 6 More Virtualbox Options

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Schermy (New user):

I found that you needed to run the command sudo bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run after navigating to the correct folder cd /media/cdrom

27 December 2008, 4:57 PM (4 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

JBannan (New user):

interesting - when you used the command mentioned in the tutorial, was there an error?

27 December 2008, 6:28 PM (4 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

António Canha (New user):

I have a Turion 64 x2 and my machine get's slower and gives a bluescreen about usb device. After deinstalation of Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.2 all run's well.

07 January 2009, 7:38 AM (4 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

JBannan (New user):

There is an updated version of VirtualBox available now - have you tried that?

08 January 2009, 2:29 PM (4 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

HHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!! After you continue from pages 4 to 5, my sun xvm thing only showed black. So I closed it and repopened it. It asked for the user name- I entered my info. When it asked me for the pass- every time I typed, it didn't show any letters!!!!! Is that supposed to happen???????????????? Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It won't let me in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

09 March 2009, 2:24 AM (4 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

TJGeezer (New user):

The article's impossible to read in Firefox 3.6 or MS Internet Explorer - none of the long lines wrap to the margins. Maybe there's something haywire with my Windows 7 browsers, but I don't see this problem elsewhere.

28 June 2010, 10:39 AM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend