Wait for the download to complete or, if you have the bandwidth, move on to the next step while it downloads.

Click ‘Download’ next to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Free hard drive space on the hostĢ5 GB of free hard disk space on the host should be enough, but remember a full disk runs slow and it is best to have about 25% of the host disk unused.

ProcessorĪny multi-core processor, Intel or AMD, made in the last 8 to 10 years should be good. There are many good articles on how to do this. If you are short on memory you can dual-boot your machine. The host will always need a little extra. The equation isn’t really ‘host memory after boot’ + ‘4 to 6 for guest’ = ‘amount of memory on host’. Check you host system after a fresh boot to see how much free memory it has. If you are going to be doing development on the guest you’ll need to give the guest 4 to 6 GB of memory. Guest: - The guest machine is the virtual machine that you run using VirtualBox.This will be a Linux, Mac or Windows machine running directly on your machines hardware. Host: - The host machine is the machine you install VirtualBox on.DefinitionsĪ couple of words used frequently in this article: It is free in that you can study, modify and redistribute the source code. It is free for personal and commercial use. It is free as in you don’t need to buy ($$) or pay to use it. Linux generally is less resource intensive and runs on older hardware.Īnother good reason to use Linux is it is free. Your a Windows or Mac user and you think or heard you should learn Linux.You may be curious about a different operating system.You want to run a web and/or database server on Linux.Your app will run on Linux in production and you want to do development on Linux as well to reduce the complications of development and deployment.

Here are a few other reasons to consider Linux: I have Windows as a virtual machine because I love Microsoft Excel. While I originally used Ubuntu in a virtual machine, I eventually removed Windows and installed Ubuntu. Not wanting to buy a Mac at that point I tried Linux and have been using it for the past five years. I either had to search harder to find Windows information or spend time figuring it out. When I left the corporate world and started using non-Microsoft tools I quickly realized that most ‘how to’ information on the web was for Mac or Linux. For me, as an employee of large corporations I was a Windows user for nearly 15 years and used mostly Microsoft development tools. There are many reasons why you may want to build a Linux virtual machine.

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