Comments on: How to Install & Run Ubuntu Linux in VirtualBox

By: John

John — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:24:12 +0000

This is the stupidest comment I’ve ever heard. If you don’t like Unity (the thing that borrows a very small amount of OSX’s nice features) then you can just install gnome or some other window manager. It has nothing to do with Linux or Ubuntu.

Also, Linux may not have market share on desktops but do you know the likelihood that this website is hosted on a linux machine?

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:13:10 +0000

What if it never reboots?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:22:13 +0000

Had Ubuntu on my 2007 iMac since this first posted and it ran fine. Recently I upgraded to a Mac Mini and moved my .vdi file to a second drive along with my home folder. Reason is, I needed space on my newly installed SSD drive. In the process of moving the file, I lost the original settings. Now Ubuntu is painfully slow. So slow, in fact that I have time to go make a pot of coffee and come back to find it still booting. In hopes that someone can check their settings, I’ll post what I have things set for. I look forward to some input.

My Mac is a 2011 Mini-2.5GHz, i5, with 16g of Ram, a 240g SSD and a 500g HDD. The OS (10.8.2) is on the SSD and my documents are on the HDD, along with the Virtual Drive(s).

Here’s what I have for settings…
General
Name: Ubuntu VM
OS: Ubuntu 64bit
System
Base Memory: 2048MB
Boot Order: Hard Disk
Acceleration: VT-x/AMD-V, Nested Paging, PAE/NX
Display
Vid Mem: 64MB
Remote Server: Disabled
Storage
Controller: IDE
IDE Primary Master: Ubuntu Linux.vdi (Normal, 8.00 GB)
IDE Secondary Master: [CD/DVD] Empty
Audio
Host Driver: CoreAudio
Controller: ICH AC97
Network: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged Adapter, en0: Ethernet)
USB
Device Filters: 0 (0 active)
Shared
None
Description
None

Any suggestions would be most appreciated…

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:08:46 +0000

Ubuntu 12.4 LTS – installing now. I have been using it for the almost a year on a handful of computers. I could not be more happy! Used OS X for a solid 10 years – and now it just seems Apple has really decided to tick me off – tons of broken machines, phones, ipods, the list is endless. Ubuntu is EASY to use – and difficult to break.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:02:29 +0000

I believe that the answer to this is that it doesn’t matter, because you are dealing with a virtual OS, which means virtual storage as well.

Although maybe the better answer is to choose (a) overwrite, because it reduces complexity of handling virtual partitions.

By: Gian

Gian — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:45:08 +0000

Thanks for the post. I found it very useful.

By: Holi

Holi — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:08:18 +0000

After I clicked “Install Ubuntu” I was faced with two options – (a) overwrite existing OS or (b) add partitions. Which do I choose?

By: vikrant

vikrant — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:21:22 +0000

after the installation of linux in virtualbox,when i click on “start” again the installation comes,but i am not able to find the installed os.can anyone help me in how to start the os which is installed through virtualbox,as i am new to this software.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:27:29 +0000

You wouldn’t get much benefit from that, you might as well just run VirtualBox from your main account. You can attempt to maximize the performance by just running VirtualBox on it’s own without other apps open and by dedicating it as many resources as you can afford. Parallels runs Ubuntu well too.

By: Dougy Fresh

Dougy Fresh — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:36:35 +0000

Would it be a smart approach to create a guest account on Lion and then install only VirtualBox and then an Ubuntu image? Sort of like a simulated dual-boot without actually partitioning and all that?

By: alex

alex — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:48:45 +0000

I have tried to install Ubuntu Linux LTS 32bit (and after 64bit) with VirtualBox on osx 10.6.8 macbookpro 2008.
I did not succeed to get a working network connection on Ubuntu (I use only wifi network) is it normal? Do you know which is the configuration of the adapter I should have to get the network?

Thanks,
Alex

By: Logan

Logan — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:04:34 +0000

I have OS X Mountain Lion and, just warning you all, VirtualBox does not work on the beta OS.

By: George

George — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:43:51 +0000

After installation on my intel iMac on OS 10.6.8 the Linux window just sat there dark without any thing inside it. Nothing happened.

By: Dobo

Dobo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:01:48 +0000

Thanks for the article. It gave me something to do on my lunch break other than work for a change.

By: abuabdullah

abuabdullah — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:39:30 +0000

thank you very much