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Installing Linux in VirtualBox

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Installing Linux in VirtualBox

- [Instructor] To install Linux in VirtualBox, first, we need an installation image or disk. While VirtualBox allows you to connect to a system's optical drive to install from a CD or DVD, the process that we'll go through in this video uses an ISO image, a file that represents the contents of an installation disk. There are many different distributions of Linux, and in this video, I'll use Ubuntu 18.04. But you can follow along with whichever version of whichever distro you like. I'll visit ubuntu.com and click on Download. I'll find the desktop version and I'll save it to my system. Once the ISO is downloaded, I'll open up VirtualBox and I'll click on the New icon to create a new virtual machine. The first window I see asks me to give this virtual machine a name. This is what will appear as the name over on the list in the left, and it can be as descriptive as you like. I'll call it My Ubuntu VM. And VirtualBox has…

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