How to run an Ubuntu Desktop virtual machine using VirtualBox 7

Hi
I installed virtualbox on Ubuntu, but the storage not visible on that machine. How can I fix it?

You can set up the Synced Folder feature to provide access to host(the system that runs VirtualBox) files to the guest VMs.

Using oracle virtualbox 7.1.4r165100(Qt6.5.3) and ubuntustudio-24.04.2-dvd-amd64 7,528,934 KB on a Windows 10 Intel i7-3770, when I click on Try or Install UbuntuStudio, I get:
error: file /casper/vmlinuz not found.
error: you need to load the kernel first.
I have no problem in virtualbox with regular Ubuntu, but all three flavors give this same error.
Please help.

Nevermind. ubuntustudio-24.10-desktop-amd64 works, just like regular ubuntu desktop.

It spends half an hour supposedly loading files, then won’t let me login. What is the live user password? I used nothing and I used “live” which is the convention other distros use. I also tried “root” “root”. Using the login and password setup in virtualbox, it won’t accept those either. No way to login. Ouch.

Hi my ex-folks, Thanks for the great tutorial!
Just a nitpick; the link to ubuntu.com/download is no longer showing Ubuntu 22.10 (and the screenshots are stale now), so the reader needs to search for the ISO image and land here at the end.

So, it’d be great if you could update the links, or renew the tutorial to the latest Ubuntu 24.04 release (which, I know, takes much more time).

Thanks for the tutorial. I followed it excactly, unfortunately it totally meets my so-far experiences with any Linux: It didn’t work without problems. So instead of booting into Ubuntu as promised in the tutorial, it rather showes a failure, please see the snipping.

If you click on “Report Problem” a second window should come up where you can expand the details to see what actually failed (note that literally millions of people run such installs in VMs regularly, having “linux fail” is not actually a common thing 
)

I’d also suggest to use an LTS version (i.e. 24.04.2) instead of an interim release 


Thank you. Did a 2nd try with 24.04 but no luck. Despite activated in VB I cant do anything with the clipboard at this stage of the installation, so no chance to post anything here. But I managed to report the problem. Perhaps it helps somebody after me, I am off from this for now. Absolutely too timeconsuming to get anything to work which works flawless in Windows. Goal was to mount an USB drive to Ubuntu and copy data from exFAT drive to ext4. But this seems to be too much asked. Spent hours with ChatGPT to debug this installation and it helps great, but in the end only frustration and burned lifetime. Thanks again and farewell.

I highly doubt that given the data it bases its answers on is usually a decade old (so you get answers, but usually the wrong ones or ones for obsolete technology), you should have opened a thread here and real people would have helped you :wink: