To install, navigate to File > Preferences > Extensions > Adds New Package (icon on the right side) in your VM, once you are logged in, and select the downloaded file. It is necessary that the extension pack version exactly matches the version of VirtualBox installed. This step will allow VirtualBox to find a USB device that is plugged into your host machine.ĭownload the extension pack for your installed VirtualBox from this link. Step 4: Install extension pack for USB device mountįrom within your VM, you may need to read/write files from/to a USB device. Once your installation is complete, you will be able to start and log in to your account from within VirtualBox as you would in a native Ubuntu system. Clicking the link should start download automatically. If you are running on a Linux host, click on the Linux distributions link and select the correct distribution and version on the page you are directed to. If your host OS is Windows, select the package accordingly under the section Virtualbox platform packages. Steps here illustrate the installation of Ubuntu 16.04, but newer versions can also be installed following the same procedure.
This guide will also show you how to access a USB device with the help of an extension pack from within the VM as well as setting up a shared folder to share files between the host machine and your VM. It is a free to use product available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, which currently runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, and Solaris hosts.
This tutorial guides you through the process of creating and setting up an Ubuntu Virtual Machine (VM) on VirtualBox, an open-source software that allows virtualization. Setup Guide: Ubuntu Virtual Machine using VirtualBox (Extension Pack + Guest Additions)
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