Select the location the server resides to properly setting system date time and click on Continue button. Installation type:- Select Erase disk and install Ubuntu option and click on Install Now button. You can select option “Download updates while installing” to install updated packages and click Continue. To install permanently select Install Ubuntu to begin installation. You can simply start ubuntu without installing. After booting the vm, You will see screen like below.

Select the ISO of downloaded Ubuntu operating system and click Start button. As operating system is not installed, It will ask for bootable drive. Click on Start button as per showing below screencast. Now We will install operating system on this virtual machine. At this stage you have create an Ubuntu virtual machine without operating system. Select eh location of files to be created in system and size of hard drive to be created. Using this option hard drive grows on system as it fills only. We suggest to use option “Dynamically allocated”. You may select other formats If you want to use these hard drive with other virtualization software’s.

Choose the type of virtual hard drive file to be created. As we are creating new virtul machine so just select option “ Create a virtual hard drive now” and click Create button. Select the memory size to allot to new vm as per below screenshot.

Input name of your vm and select appropriate type and version and click Next. Start VirtualBox and click New button to create virtual machine. If you don’t have already installed it, Visit below link and install latest version of VirtualBox on your system. We are assuming you have pre-installed VirtualBox on your system. Ubuntu Server: Download and Install VirtualBox Visit following urls to dowload latest version of Ubuntu ISO.

Ubuntu server iso virtualbox