Remember your newly folder Name shown in this list. Click OK and save your changes. Start your Guest machine In Guest machine, create a new folder, e.
JigglyNaga 6, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Still works as of Ubuntu Thank you so much for the "wrong fs type" error mention; I kept getting this error no matter which guide I was following and was puzzled, but got everything working after this "apt-get".
I am surprised this utility package is not mentioned anywhere else. It wasn't obvious for a newer user like me. Thank you! I found many other similar answers, but nobody else thought to mention the part about installing virtualbox-guest-utils — Shaul Behr. Thanks you. After install virtualbox-guest-utils package everything works fine. Hauke Laging Luname Luname 61 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Whenever you insert an USB key, if you want to see it in the guest proceed as follows: Cleanly unmount the USB from windows by clicking on the corresponding icon in the bottom right corner and selecting the "safely remove Otherwise, the other options are Shared folder as stated in laebshade's and Alvin Sim's answers.
But that can be slow. Or, download the ISO image of any other operating system that your interested in. In this post, Ubuntu Server Microsoft Virtual PC is my choice to run Windows virtual machines. Main reason is the lack of integration elements; Virtual PC integration components are designed to run well on XP, Vista and 7 virtual machines.
For Linux, Virtual PC does not at least at this moment offer any integration components. VirtualBox integration components are called Guest Additions. Choose the correct version for it based on whether your machine is a bit or bit. Next step would be choosing computer memory that you want to assign to the virtual memory. Create a Ubuntu virtual machine Now you will get an option to create Virtual Machine. Among three options to choose from, checkmark beside the option Create a virtual hard disk now and click on Create.
Minimum space given is 10 GB. Choose the amount of space and click Continue. Install Ubuntu Now that Virtual machine has been created, you need to boot into Ubuntu. Now you will get the Ubuntu installer interface, click on Start to begin the process. Next screen will show you the prerequisites like make sure that your machine has enough power or your laptop is plugged into power, system is connected to the internet, system should have over 6.
Click Install and then click on Continue on the next page. Once done click on Next. Enter the name in to give your virtual machine a name. Continue to accept the default 'VDI' drive file type and click 'Next' button. Change the storage type from the default 'Dynamically allocated' to 'Fixed size' to increase performance. I'll pick GB since I have plenty of space in my hard disk. You want to choose a good size for your RNA-Seq analysis. If you realize the drive space is not large enough, you'll need to go over these steps again to create another virtual machine.
Click 'Create' button and VirtualBox will generate Ubuntu virtual machine. Now the virtual machine is created. We are ready to install Ubuntu in this virtual machine. Select your new virtual machine and click 'Settings' button. Note that if you have not downloaded bit Ubuntu ISO file, you can check out this page for more information.
When downloading Ubuntu ISO file, make sure to selecte bit version. You can change this number by clicking on 'System' category. In this case, I change the number of CPUs to 4 since 4 is the largest value shown on the green bar in my case.
Now you can click 'OK' button to continue. VirtualBox may pop up a message about 'Auto capture keyboard' option. Read the message there and check 'Do not show this message again' option before clicking OK. Now you shall see a 'Welcome' screen. Click 'Install Ubuntu' button. Note that the installation process may differ a little bit from version to version.
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