It is convenient to have a shared clipboard between host and guest system and enable drag and drop. Therefore, select the machine and press Settings. Next we are going to tweak the virtual hardware specs of our ubuntuBox virtual machine. We choose Dynamically allocated disk type because it helps to keep the physical storage on the mac host small with less software installed. Less than 50 GB will probably work as well but ubuntu takes up around 10 GB and the size increases with installed updates and software like ROS. In the next step choose as much RAM size as possible to get a fast virtual machine.Ĭreate a virtual hard disk and select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) file type because we will use this virtual machine exclusively with virtualbox and no other hypervisor aka virtual machien software, like parallels or vmm. Virtualbox should automatically change the Type and Version. Just choose a name for example ubuntuBox. The process to setup a ubuntu virtual machine is quite self explaining and I will mention only some important steps. Setup VirtualboxĪfter installing the virtualbox we can create a new virtual machine by pressing New. While the image is downloading got to the virtualbox webpage at and download virtualbox 5.2.8 by selecting the Mac OS platform package. To set up a virtualbox running Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS on a Mac Host running macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, start by downloading the ubuntu image from.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Virtualbox on macOS 10.13.2 Host

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