Start your VM and select the 'Devices' option and then 'Insert Guest Options CD' - it should ask you if you want the VM to run the install program - say yes.

Helpful drivers referred to as 'Guest Addtions' Once you install the VM, you should install the VMs set of Read over the VirtualBox Users Manual, and then install VirtualBox along with one VM (specify ubuntu 64 bit as the type), 2 GBytes of memory,Ī max disk space of 10GBytes that is allocated.In the Downloads directory (or where ever you downloaded The file you download should be an iso file- you can keep this file.Download and install the Linux distribution we will use: Ubuntu 16.04.1 Long Term Support (LTS).Download and install the recommended extension pack.Download to your laptop the latest version of VirtualBox.From a VM Window, select Machine and then Settings.From the Mgr Window, highlight the VM listed in the set of VMs that have been configured, then select Settings (or Machine).VM specific configuration, which we refer to as VM configuration, is Sfound in several ways:.and in some cases further VM configuration is required. For example, the Network Preference allows specific types of virtual networks to be created. We refer to this configuration window as System Config Window. You can also reach this configuration window from a VM Window.

System wide configuration is done in the VirtualBox Manager window by selecting File and then Preferences.We refer to this by a specific VM name, such as VM1Window or sometimes as VM1. The window that represents the VM (the specific VM name is in the top portion of the window).the main VirtualBox window that allows you to start/stop and configure the VMs, will be referred to as VirtualBox Manager window, sometimes referred to as Mgr Window.Once operational, we will refer to the different screens as follows:.To switch in and out of full screen, the default key sequence is CNT-F.Setting up VirtualBox VirtualBox Introduction

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