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Virtual machine: Installing Ubuntu desktop in VirtualBox
From the course: Learning Ubuntu Desktop
Virtual machine: Installing Ubuntu desktop in VirtualBox
- One of the ways to install Linux is inside a virtual machine. Virtual machines are little boxes that hold an operating system and run it within another operating system. This way of installing Linux is great if you're learning or testing, or either can't or don't want to modify your system's hard drive and boot setup. It's a good place to start because there's absolutely no risk of overriding or harming your current operating system or data. You can even take the virtual machine with you to different computers on an external hard drive. However, when running as a virtual machine your Linux installation won't have access to all of your computer's resources. You'll be sharing RAM and graphics memory and it will have to compete with a native or host operating system for access to discs and hardware resources. This is in no way a bad thing, though. It basically boils down to this. If you need to use Linux to do resource…
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