So right-click on the VM and click on settings.

Since I have enough CPU on my machine, I assign about 4 CPUs. To get better performance, at least you should configure 2 CPUs. You will see the Ubuntu server VM created in the VirtualBox by default, when we made the virtual machine, it picked up a single CPU. Storage on Physical hard disk – Choose Dynamically allocated and click on Create.Again, you could assign more storage volume depending on your usage and hard disk storage capacity. File Size – By default, the virtual machine has assing 10GB of storage for the Ubuntu server, which is not enough for most of the users.Location – You will be able to see the location of your virtual hard disk on the top based on the configuration you made before.The virtual hard disk creation wizard will now open. Create virtual hard disk for Ubuntu server 20.04. Hard disk – Choose create a virtual hard disk now option and click on Create.Ģ.If you need more memory, you could add more as well. As I have close to 32GB of RAM and require good performance from the virtual machine, I am giving 4GB of RAM for the virtual machine. Configure the Memory- You could assign even 1 GB of memory.

By default, when we typed the name, it picked up the Type as Linux and the version as Ubuntu.

Machine folder: Location where you want to save the file.

Name : You will have to enter the name of your VM.

You will be taken to the Virtual machine creation wizard in Expert mode. However, if you want to have complete control of your virtual machine resources, you must choose the expert mode. Open VirtualBox and click on New to create a virtual machine in Virtualbox.īy default, you will be on the guided mode, for a simple virtual machine creation, that should be fine. Virtual box guest addition installation on Ubuntu server 20.04.

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