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With your new virtual machine selected in the left sidebar, click the green Start arrow.

Guess what? You're back at the Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager. You can select another location if you wish. I suggest using the default 8 GB setting, and default location - in your user folder (the one with the house icon in Finder). VirtualBox needs to know the initial size of the new virtual hard drive and where you want to save it. Once again, select the default 'Dynamically allocated' and click Continue. Now you need to select the storage size of the virtual hard drive on your physical drive. I chose the default VDI setting, and clicked yet again on Continue. The next screen asks what kind of hard drive file type you would like to use. Use the default 'Create a virtual hard drive now' radio button, and click 'Create'. VirtualBox recommended 512 MB, but I selected 1 GB because hey, RAM's good! Clicking Continue again, you're then asked if you want to add a virtual hard drive to the new machine. A screen appears asking for the amount of memory you wish to allot to your VM. The type of operating system is Linux, the version in this case is Ubuntu (64 bit). I typed in a very original name for my virtual machine: Ubuntu.

The first window you'll see looks like this: Click on the New button in the upper left of the window to start creating a new virtual machine. A blank 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager' appears. Pop into the Applications folder and launch VirtualBox. Step 4: Launch VirtualBox and create a virtual machine This is used as an installation 'disk' for Ubuntu.

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iso disk image file is stored on your Mac.

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The download will begin and several minutes later an. You'll be asked if you want to make a donation to help development of Ubuntu that's up to you and you can also just try it for free, then donate later. By the way, if you have a fairly recent Mac that's running Lion, Mountain Lion, or even Mavericks, go ahead and select the 64-bit version of the operating system. Head on over to this page in your favorite browser, and click on the download button for the Long-Term Support (LTS) edition - that just means that version will be supported for a longer time. Yes, I know there are plenty of other distros out there to play with and that some are better than others, but for the purpose of this post I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for readers to just experiment. Now it's time to get the Linux distro that I used the last time - Ubuntu. The instructions are right on the box! Double-click the VirtualBox.pkg icon, respond to the various prompts using the default values, and VirtualBox is installed in the Applications folder. Double-click it to mount the installer image and this Finder window appears:

Not now Turn on Turned on Turn onĪt this point you have a file with a name like 'VirtualBox-4.2.16-86992-OSX.dmg' either in the Downloads folder or on the desktop. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. Download VirtualBox 4.2.16 for OS X Hosts here, and save it to a convenient spot on your Mac. Rather than use either VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop, we're using the free Oracle VM VirtualBox. The first thing to do is get the Virtual Machine environment installed. Whatever the reason, it's easy to do and you can put it on your resumé. Why would you want to run Linux on your Mac, which features a Unix-based operating system in itself? Well, you may need to run Linux applications for your job as a system admin, or perhaps there's some specific app that some kind soul has written to run on a variety of Linux distributions but hasn't been ported to OS X yet.

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This post is an update to the original, with all-new instructions but still using the same framework - Oracle VM VirtualBox, which is an open source virtualization environment, and Ubuntu Linux.

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Entitled ' How to set up Ubuntu Linux on a Mac - It's Easy and Free,' the post described in full detail how those interested in learning more about one specific Linux distro could install Ubuntu in a virtual machine on their device. Back about this time of year in 2009, I wrote a post that's remained a venerable favorite.

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