Hey guys, so I am writing this because virtual box can be a pain at times with shared folder, and maybe explain some stuff too. I wrote this quickly so no judgy. >:]
Ok, first off, you need to download the ISO image of Ubuntu Desktop if you haven’t already. That can be found here.
**Note: It would be best to use the LTS version, which stands for Long Term Support, which I think is about 8 years at time of release.
At this point, you need to have Oracle VirtualBox installed as well. You can find that here.
You need to select your given OS, in my case, it is Windows, so we would choose Windows hosts.
Once that is all installed, we need to create a VM, or virtual machine, to host and run your new Ubuntu Image file.
Let’s get a bit familiar with VirtualBox. I know this seems stupid to mention, but trust me, it is important to understand the interface you are going to be working with.
The blue box is your VMs themselves, this is where you can choose the given boxes that have already been set up and are (hopefully) ready to run.
The red box is the new icon, which is where you would create a new box. This is if you have a new OS (such as our ubuntu image) and you want to create a new, fresh environment based on that image.
The brown box is settings the given selected box. This is where everything outside of the OS will be set, so anything hardware wise such as displays, storage, memory, cores, and other interfaces. This is where we are going to be mounting the shared folder.
The lavender is the start button, which starts the VM box. There is a couple different ways that you can such down a VM, but that is up to you in terms of whatever state you want it to be in.
And finally, the yellow group is your information about the box in more detail. This is mostly for checking quick details about the current runtime of that particular box.
Ok, so let’s create the VM. Go to the new button to create a new VM, you should see a window like this: