- INSTALLING VIRTUALMACHINE ON SECOND HARD DRIVE INSTALL
- INSTALLING VIRTUALMACHINE ON SECOND HARD DRIVE ISO
Choose appropriate USB version and click on the plus icon to add a new device from the small popup menu. Go to “USB” tab and click on “Enable USB Controller”.
INSTALLING VIRTUALMACHINE ON SECOND HARD DRIVE ISO
Once you have selected an ISO image, make sure that it appears in “Storage” section. On the next screen, either select an existing ISO image that you may have used while creating another virtual machine or add a new ISO image using “Add” button. These settings will also improve performance of Ubuntu in the virtual machine.Ĭlick on “Storage” tab and click on small plus icon in front of “Controller: IDE” entry. Go to “Display” tab, choose appropriate video memory and click on “Enable 3D Acceleration” checkbox. Assigning more power to virtual machine will ensure faster installation on the external drive. As stated earlier, the installer will run in a virtual machine. Go to “System” tab and choose appropriate number of CPU processors keeping in mind your hardware capability. Select your newly created virtual machine, and then click on “Settings” button to start configuring the virtual machine. Ignore the “without a hard disk” warning and click on “Continue” button to finish the process of creating an Ubuntu virtual machine. This will minimize the chances of installing Ubuntu on a wrong disk.
INSTALLING VIRTUALMACHINE ON SECOND HARD DRIVE INSTALL
Since you are going to install Ubuntu on external drive, there is no need to create a virtual hard disk. On the next screen, make sure that “Do not add a virtual hard disk” radiobox is checked. Make sure that you assign a generous amount for the default Ubuntu installer to work without issues in the virtual machine. On the next window, set the RAM amount for the Ubuntu virtual machine. Assign a name of your choice but make sure that “Type” is set to Linux. Launch VirtualBox from the application launcher and click on “New” button to add a new virtual machine. With Ubuntu running in live mode in a VirtualBox machine, you can use the default installer shipped with Ubuntu to install it in an external USB drive. In order to install Ubuntu on an external drive using VirtualBox, you will have to boot into Ubuntu live ISO mode in a virtual machine. This guide has been tested with Ubuntu 19.10 and it may or may not work on older versions. If external USB drive is not listed in the terminal output shown above, you won’t be able to install Ubuntu on it.
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Note that these steps are absolutely necessary to complete for this tutorial to work. I prepared SanDisk Cruzer Force external USB drive for installing Ubuntu and it is listed correctly by the VBoxManage command. You should see your external drive listed in the terminal output: