When I switched to Apple Silicon the only viable option that “just worked” out of the box was Parallels Desktop In the past I’ve relied on VirtualBox for that, since it was available on Linux, Mac, and Windows host OS’s. Whenever I can I try to stay within just using them. It allows for proper sandboxing of development environments, customer projects, apps, etc. After completing you must restart the computer.Ĭongratulations! Enjoy the Ubuntu goodness!ĭon’t forget that you can always download the fully functional virtual machine here vm. traditionally live most of my life in virtual machines, both in the cloud and on my desktop.

During the installation, you must specify the computer name, user name, password and login mode.Ħ. You can select the language for the installed system, time zone, keyboard, and so on. The process of installing the operating system is not different from the installation on a real machine. Click on Continue to begin installing the new operating system (Ubuntu).Choose iso-file with Ubuntu that locate somewhere in your drive.Click on new machine (Ubuntu VM in our case) and Start.

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Choose the amount of storage space (about 8GB).Enter the name and operating system (for example, Name: Ubuntu VM, Type: Linux, Version: Ubuntu).Start VirtualBox and activate a button New to create a new virtual machine.Run program with double click (you might be sure, that you are under a user account with administrator privileges) and choose Next – Yes.Īfter installation is complete, you run the main program module user VirtualBox - Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager (Manager Oracle VM VirtualBox).Ĭreate a virtual machine Oracle VM VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox we can download from the download page ( ) for every OS and version.

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