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Installing the Guest Operating System

Installing the Guest Operating System

Learn how to install an operating system on the virtual machine.

VirtualBox creates guest machines that run on top of a host machine. The host machine is the machine running VirtualBox. It hosts various virtual machines running as guests inside of VirtualBox. Once we define a virtual machine, we install an operating system, much like installing a real operating system on a computer. Let’s install Ubuntu on this machine using the disk image we downloaded.

Installing Ubuntu on our virtual machine

When we first start our virtual machine, VirtualBox detects that there’s no operating system and prompts us to install one. ...