Reboot your system and as soon as it powers up, press F2/F10/F12 to access BIOS settings. You’ll have to activate it in your BIOS settings first. This means that virtualization is blocked on your system. Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE).ĪMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by the host OS) (VERR_SVM_DISABLED). Troubleshooting: AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS I strongly recommend using VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu for it provides better compatibility and you would be able to use copy-paste and drag-drop between Linux and Windows. You can even delete the Linux ISO that you downloaded earlier. The installation is a one time only process.
From now on, just click on the installed Linux virtual machine.
If you prefer videos, you can watch the one below from our YouTube channel:Īnd that’s all. If VirtualBox gets updated via a ppa or however, you need to remove the old extension pack, download. File > Preferences > Extensions > Adds New Package (icon on right side) It is important that the extension pack match the version of VirtualBox installed.
I am installing Ubuntu 17.10 in this tutorial, but the same steps apply to any other Linux distribution. To install an extension pack once VirtualBox is installed click on.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Linux inside Windows using VirtualBox.
When you just want to try Linux for limited use, virtual machines provide the most comfortable option. Our first step to installing Ubuntu on our Mac OS is to install VirtualBox. Basically, you install and use Linux like any regular Windows application. You can even install Linux within Windows from Microsoft Store (though this only provides you with the command line version of Linux).īut if you want to use Linux without making any changes to your Windows system, you can go the virtual machine route. You can dual boot Linux with Windows and choose one of the operating systems at the boot time. You can clean everything from your system and install Linux. This step-by-step guide shows you how to install Linux inside Windows using VirtualBox. Brief: Using Linux in a virtual machine gives you the option to try Linux within Windows.