

Click on the icon for that virtual machine ("testUbuntu20") and hit the big green arrow "Start" icon.(Optional: If your purpose for setting up this machine is to practice installing Ubuntu on a RAID array in a safe sandboxed environment, set up additional virtual hard drive images now under Settings > Storage).


Go to, hit the "download" link, and pick whichever version of Ubuntu you want to try out in a virtual machine.Other versions and other hosts should work similarly.) (This was tested installing Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS as a guest in VirtualBox-6.1 on a Windows 10 host. Setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine is easy. It doesn't matter if your host OS is Linux, MacOS, or something else. Once you have VirtualBox installed on your host computer. 6 Using ssh to access an Ubuntu virtual machine.5 A few things you can do with this virtual machine.3 return to the host operating system for further installation steps.2 installing inside the virtual machine.1 host operating system pre-install steps.
