Using the above dialog, click on the little icon with the folder and the green up arrow. In order to run, it needs a startup disk, in this case the Pop!_OS iso file that you downloaded and probably in your Downloads directory. You should be all ready to run! Hit the "Start" button, the green arrow on the toolbar at the top. The install may fail if you use VirtualBox's default legacy boot mode. Check the Enable EFI (special OSes only) checkbox.Open the settings for the machine (click the machine on the list and press Ctrl+ S).To ensure the bootloader installs properly: Name Drive File and Confirm Sizeįeel free to just pick the defaults here and click on the "Create" button. Click on the "Next" button to the next screen. The default is the correct answer here as you don't really want to allocate space that you will not actually use. This dialog tells you how you want to grow the disk as you put content on it. You can accept the default value here as well and click on the "Next" button. After adjusting storage, feel free to accept the defaults and click the "Create" button. Pop!_OS will need at least 15GB but it is recommended to give it 20GB if possible. You can of course set it to as high as you like. The default value of 1024 MB is not enough to run Ubuntu and you will have problems.
Click "Next" button to move to the next screen. Your screen should look like the screenshot above. Set your type to "Linux" and the version to "Ubuntu (64 bit)". We use Pop!_OS, of course, but you can use whatever you like. Once you click on the new, button you should have the screen where you can name the VM and what kind of operating system. It should be clearly marked with a colorful blue icon. Click on the "New" button on the top left corner. This is the initial screen of VirtualBox after freshly installing on your OS. Once you have that accomplished run VirtualBox. Installed the VirtualBox package on your favorite Linux based OS and the guest OS extensions.Especially useful if you want to play around with Pop!_OS and see what it can do without having to commit to installing it somewhere.įirst things first. This is a quick tutorial on getting Pop!_OS to run on a virtual machine.
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