

Select Bridged Adapter for Attached to:.

Select your WiFi (wireless) adapter from Name:.

I prefer to use the Network in Bridged Adapter mode in which your VM will get it's IP address and other network settings the same way that your regular machine does. More details here: Better Network Settingsīy default the VirtualBox will act as a NAT router and it will not communicate well with other nodes on your network. Here are some things to check under settings that are differentĪs far as I can tell the most important detail is the 128MiB Video RAM,īut running both side-by-side the ICH9 chipset with 3D Acceleration enabled Click Create to finish creating the virtual machineĪt some point VirtualBox decided to make the default settings EXTREMELY SLOW forĪn Ubuntu intallation.Click Continue, Continue, Continue, Continue, Create to create a virtual 8gb SATA drive.Click Continue to accept the default 512mb RAM (you can change this later if needed).Verify that Ubuntu is selected as Version.Verify that Linux is selected as the Operating System.Put Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit for the name (or whatever version and cpu type).Open VirtualBox (however you do that sort of thing on your OS).Create an Ubuntu-optimized VirtualMachine Note: The guest extensions are for the virtual OS, not your real OS. Note: On Linux you can usually just sudo apt-cache search virtualbox and sudo apt-get install the OSE flavor of VirtualBox and the Host Extensions.

