Hello the beautiful people.
And welcome to this video where we're going to be getting you set up with your very own Linux virtual
machine running a specific flavor of Linux called a Bun two.
So flavors of Linux are called distributions in the Linux lingo.
And we're going to be getting you set up with the Ubuntu distribution of Linux for your VirtualBox virtual
machines.
So what I want you to do is I want you to head over to WW WB open two dot com for slash download forward
slash desktop.
I will be putting a link in the resources section for this video.
Or you could just head over to your favorite search engine and search for a button to download and it'll
be the first link that comes up.
And when you click on it, you'll find a page that looks like this.
Now what I want you to do, it's going to give you multiple options of what version of Ubuntu you want
to download, but I want you to click on the most up to date option.
So for example here I've got open to 17.10.
Now an interesting thing you can actually tell when the Ubuntu releases were released by just looking
at the version numbers.
So here I can tell that it was released in 2017, in the 10th month, which would be October.
But up here for example, I can see that this was released in 2016, in the fourth month, which is
going to be April.
So the more up to date version numbers mean, they were released later on.
Okay.
So what we're going to do is we're going to click well, I am anyway, I'm going to click on Ubuntu
1710, but you just click on whatever is most up to date for you.
It will not affect your experience of the course.
The entire course will be the same for you regardless whatever version you pick, but you may as well
have the most up to date version.
So I'm going to click download and it's going to open up another page where it's going to ask me for
a few donations, but I'm going to say, unfortunately, that I'm not going to donate any money here
today and I'm going to be taken to the download.
But you feel free to do whatever you want to do, okay?
And then it's going to start to download what's called a disk image file to my computer.
Now I'm going to click, I'm going to save it in the downloads folder for myself.
You can download it wherever you want and you'll notice that a download starts to begin.
Now these ISO files used to be usually tend to be quite large, usually on the order of gigabytes.
So you can see here that this is 1.4 gigabytes in size.
So this might take quite a while depending on how quick your Internet is.
Now, I'm going to have to wait for that to go ahead and download.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut the video here and I'm going to come back when it is downloaded.
So just be patient with this.
You won't ever have to really do it again.
So once it's done, it's done.
So just wait for that thing to download and then unpause the video to follow through with the rest of
the setup.
Okay.
So the download has gone and completed and now I can go ahead and install the virtual machine.
So you can see that we've got this disk image file saved in my downloads folder.
And with that there we're going to go ahead and open up a virtual box.
Now with virtual box, this is where you can set up virtual machines to to run and you can have more
than one.
So we're just going to create a new virtual machine.
I'm going to call it a bunter because I am imaginative and call it and you can see it's found the type
which is Linux and a 1 to 64 bit which is which is what my one was.
If yours was a 32 bit download, then go ahead and click open to 32 bit.
But I think by default it should be a 64 bit.
So I'll leave it at that.
Now I'm going to hit next and it's going to ask me for the amount of memory or ram in megabytes to be
allocated to the virtual machine.
Now, an important thing to note is here that this is only allocated when the virtual machine is running.
When you turn the virtual when you close the virtual machine, it will it will be given back to the
host computer.
So don't worry about this too much.
Just give it a generous amount.
So let's say up to a let's say about three quarters or 80% of the green distance.
You don't want to go all the way up to here because this might make your system stutter a bit and jitter
a bit.
So just take it most of the way up to the green, to the end of the green, but not all the way.
So leave some buffer room there.
Okay, so I'm going to leave it at that.
Just do it by.
It isn't a perfect science.
Just go ahead and do it.
By then it's going to ask you about a hard disk.
Now, what you've got to imagine is that this virtual machine is thinks that it's a computer, okay?
And a computer needs a hard drive space.
Okay.
So what we're doing is we're creating an imaginary hard drive that this virtual box is going to this
virtual machine is going to think is a real hard drive, but it's actually just a file saved on our
actual computer.
So what we going to do is we're going to create a virtual hard disk now, so let's create it and it
says, What type do you want it to be?
Just leave it as the first option, a virtual box disk image, leave it just like that.
And then it's going to say, do you want it to be do you want the file?
A data to be dynamically allocated or fixed size dynamically allocated means that when when the data
fills up on that imaginary hard drive, the file will get bigger and fixed size means that the file
will be that size no matter what, even if it's basically empty.
Now, for efficiency sake, let's just have it dynamically allocated and then you can call it whatever
you want and store it wherever you want by clicking this this arrow here to change where you want to
save it.
But just leave it as the default.
If you if you're not particularly first and it doesn't really matter massively how much size you give
it, I tend to just give mine 20 gigabytes.
That's usually more than enough.
But you can you can just choose what's alright for you it's you know, as long as you've got something
above one or two gigabytes you're, you should be absolutely fine.
So, so I'm just going to have 20 gigabytes there as an imaginary hard disk and I'm going to click create.
Okay.
So we're almost there now.
We're very, very close.
We've got to do is click on settings to set up a few more things.
So to make sure that our to make sure that our virtual machine has just a bit more power.
What we're going to do is we're going to click on settings, go to system and click processor the processor
tab and increase this to two cores if you have them.
So two processors or up to the end of the green here.
So what I'm going to do that just basically allows the virtual machine to just have that bit more performance,
okay.
And everything else should be the same, except when you click on storage, there's one final thing
to do.
So on storage, this is where we're going to basically insert that disk image so that you can imagine
the imaginary computer booting from that that abundant image into a real computer.
It's a bit confusing, but just just follow with me.
Just click on storage.
Then you'll see this bit here where it says controller ID and it will have a disk that says empty.
So click that, then click on this disk at the top, right click that.
And it's all say, choose virtual optical disk file.
So let's click that.
Then we'll go to my downloads folder and click a ribbon to 17.10 disk image that we downloaded or whatever
disk image version that you downloaded, you're open to version click open.
And now that's, that's all set up click.
Okay.
And we're basically all good to go.
So that's all set up in Ready to Go.
And in the next video, we're going to run you through the final bit of the installation which is setting
up the the actual Ubuntu machine when it boots up.
So for all that goodness, I'll see you in the next video.