
We’ll call this one the host operating system.Īfter you installed the VirtualBox application on your host operating system, you can create a new virtual machine (VM) in VirtualBox. Hmm…what does this mean? Simply put, VirtualBox is an application that enables you to install another operating system, within your current operating system. If you look up the definition of VirtualBox, you’ll find something along the lines of “VirtualBox is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization”. That way there is zero risk of messing up your current operating system. We’ll use VirtualBox to install Ubuntu as a virtual machine.

I picked the Ubuntu distribution, because it is a popular and beginner-friendly Linux based operating system.

In this article, you’ll learn step-by-step how to install Ubuntu as a VirtualBox virtual machine. Interested in giving Linux a try? Then you came to the right place.
