Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tutorial for you.
This time I was asked by Drums about creating a tutorial on how to create a Linux virtual box.
So based on one of my other videos I've had in the past, I showed how to create the virtual box with the windows operating system.
So in this video I'm going to show you how to create a Linux operating system. So stick around.
So first off, in this video I'm only going to be showing you how to install
the Linux virtual machine. So you need to have the virtual box software already installed and
if you don't have that or need help with that, you might want to check out this other video
that I did and it shows you in the first part how to create the virtual box and install it
and then it gets into installing windows virtual machine on that. So if you need to look at that
video first and then you come back to this one and then see how to install Linux.
So let's jump right in and get Linux installed.
So picking up from my last video, we've got windows 10 installed in here already in this virtual box manager.
So we want to create a new virtual machine.
and the default settings is picking up Windows and our default location where it's been stored.
So what I didn't mention in the last video doing windows, is see how this information automatically
changes as I type in the name. So the name. I'm going to put in Linux it's changed it to Linux
and I'm going to call it Ubuntu and now you can see it's changed it once again.
So it knows the type is Linux and the version of Linux specifically is going to be Ubuntu.
So I'll go hit next. We're able to set our memory size. So you can put whatever you want.
The default is to create a virtual hard disk now and I'm going to do that.
and the default on here is the virtual disk image. So we're going to stick with that default is fine.
and dynamically allocated and that will allow you to make the best of the space on your hard drive.
So depending on how much space you have,
I would say stick with the dynamic. So we can go next. You can have your minimum
size for the drive is set to 10 Gigs; and that should be good enough for now.
It depends on what you're going to be doing with this. So we have our basic system set up.
Now one thing I forgot to mention when setting up the windows 10 pro, was once this part's done,
it's only done the bare minimum. If we go with that highlighted, we'll go into settings, under system.
We want to go over to the processor; because you see, the memory we already set that up;
and we also want to change the boot order. So we could do that later if we want but at
first the hard drive is empty. So it's going to check the floppy which we don't have
and the optical where we're going to be booting from to get the iso file.
But the most important thing right now is the processor; it's only running on 1 core.
That's really horrible. So we'll crank that up to at least 4 cores. So it'll be a a little more responsive.
If you go into the red area here, it's going to put a lot heavier load on your system.
Because you're already using so many cores of processing power to get just running this virtual
box manager and then running the operating system inside of that, is going to be taking some of that
power away. So have something reasonable that's going to give you enough speed but not
hurt you in other areas. Especially if you have multiple programs open at the same time.
and remembering to either now or afterwards change the boot order, so it's not going to
constantly be booting from the optical drive and that's going to make a slower boot up process
each time you turn on this virtual machine.
So with that, we'll hit ok
and now it's ready to start. So we'll start this to boot up this virtual machine and of course because
the drive is empty, just like a an actual computer; we're booting it up but there's nothing on it yet.
So it can't boot. It doesn't know what to boot from.
So if we look in the drop down menu, we can see what we've already got installed from previous.
I want to go into add a virtual, or add an iso image;
and I'll go to add to add the disk.
I'm going to find my iso image that i downloaded earlier.
and you can download any flavor of Linux that you want.
So it doesn't have to be Ubuntu. That's what I'm using in this video.
but of course you could use any other version, it'll be the same process.
I'll open that and we'll choose it. So it's in the list here
and then we'll start the virtual machine using that iso image.
So it's basically like it's booting from a CD or a USB stick with that iso image on it.
and at this point it's just running through the installation.
So it's the same as if you were installing it on a local computer.
So we just gotta run through this installation process and wait for it to finish.
So I'm gonna speed through this for you and we'll reconnect when it's done.
and now we're just at the beginning stages of being able to install it.
So you could also, just like if you were using a disc, you could just try Ubuntu
and it loads the operating system for you to try it, but we want to install it.
So of course choose your language first and go to install Ubuntu.
You've got your keyboard layout which should be correct by default. We'll continue and you
have the choice of choosing what apps you want to install right from the beginning. So it'll have the
web browser, utilities, office software, games, media player, some basic stuff like that or just minimal;
depending on what you want to use this for. You can also have it download the updates right away
while installing the Ubuntu operating system. So that way it'll save you some time
from having to do it afterwards. I'm going to uncheck that just to speed up the process here.
You don't have to check to install third-party software. So we'll leave that. You're going to get
the drivers. So it's not like your wi-fi won't work or the graphics won't be correct. This is
just installing other third-party software, which is different from the drivers. So you
can probably ignore that safely and continue. You can always install this later if necessary.
We'll continue, and then you're warned about erasing the disk to install, which is what we
want because it's fresh. Leave the default, just to get a basic install working; and now it's just
confirming how it's going to be installed, where it's going to go, the formatting, that's all fine.
Now of course you have to choose your location. So as long as it's correct, you can hit continue;
and then finally put in your name.
and you're going to want to put a password and get that all set up and require a password to log
in or you can have it set to log you in automatically if you want. So it depends
again how you want this setup. I'm going to have it prompt me for the password.
Now the installation is complete. It tells us we have to restart the computer
to complete the installation. So we'll hit restart now and of course says remove the installation
media and press enter. Well you can't really do that on a virtual box. So we'll just press enter
and since we changed the boot order already in the beginning, to boot from the hard drive before the
the virtual cd drive for the iso image, it's like the images or the disc is removed as
they requested. So it's just booting straight from the virtual hard drive.
and now we're booted up into our new operating system.
So I'll click on my username and enter in my very complex password.
and now we're into our new Linux virtual machine.
So it gives you some prompts here to connect your online accounts. You don't have to. you can hit skip.
Doing the patching of course keeping the computer secure with all the updates and that.
It's good to get that going. So you could set that up
and maybe we'll skip it for now, and it's also asking about helping with improvements; so yeah
it's it's a good idea to do that and help keep it free, but if you don't want to, you can say
you don't want to. I'm going to leave it on and location services again for privacy, it's up to you.
It helps with some other things depending on what you're going to be doing with this machine
you may need to have it turned on. But you can leave it off for privacy.
and then it tells you other apps that it's prompting you you might want to download and install.
So we'll just hit done and now we're ready to use the machine.
Go into the search and type in update, and there's two in here. One is the live update and the other
one should be your standard updates; and that will launch like this checking for updates.
It will prompt you that there's updates available if there are and if you want to install them
now or remind me later. I'm going to say remind me later just so that we can finish this video.
and we want to shut down this machine and see it start. So if you watch the other video, you
would have seen that there's a couple ways of doing it. You can do it within the operating
system itself or just X'ing out and asking it to do it. But I find it easy to use the
operating system just as though it was an actual machine. So we'll just power off that computer;
and it closes that window and we're back over here and we can see the machine ready to go.
So you can switch between multiple operating systems. Whichever one that you want to boot from
and just go to start and that basically turns on that virtual computer.
and that's all there is to installing a Linux virtual machine.
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