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The install may fail if you use VirtualBox's default legacy boot mode.

Check the Enable EFI (special OSes only) checkbox.

Open the settings for the machine (click the machine on the list and press Ctrl+ S).

To ensure the bootloader installs properly:

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Name Drive File and Confirm Sizeįeel free to just pick the defaults here and click on the 'Create' button. Click on the 'Next' button to the next screen. The default is the correct answer here as you don't really want to allocate space that you will not actually use. This dialog tells you how you want to grow the disk as you put content on it. You can accept the default value here as well and click on the 'Next' button. After adjusting storage, feel free to accept the defaults and click the 'Create' button. Pop!_OS will need at least 15GB but it is recommended to give it 20GB if possible. You can of course set it to as high as you like. The default value of 1024 MB is not enough to run Ubuntu and you will have problems.

Click 'Next' button to move to the next screen. Your screen should look like the screenshot above. Set your type to 'Linux' and the version to 'Ubuntu (64 bit)'. We use Pop!_OS, of course, but you can use whatever you like. Once you click on the new, button you should have the screen where you can name the VM and what kind of operating system. It should be clearly marked with a colorful blue icon. Click on the 'New' button on the top left corner. This is the initial screen of VirtualBox after freshly installing on your OS. Once you have that accomplished run VirtualBox.

Installed the VirtualBox package on your favorite Linux based OS and the guest OS extensions.

Especially useful if you want to play around with Pop!_OS and see what it can do without having to commit to installing it somewhere.įirst things first. If you get blue screens on boot, it’s likely that you forgot to uninstall Parallels tools.This is a quick tutorial on getting Pop!_OS to run on a virtual machine.

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Press the hard drive with the green plus icon under the list to add a new disk under the SATA controller and select “hard disk” and, when prompted, choose “Use existing disk.”

Select the newly created VM and go to its settings -> storage.

When prompted about what to do regarding a hard drive, select the option to not create the drive.

After the conversion is finished, open VirtualBox and create a new VM.

This may take a while if you have a bunch of stuff on the VM.

Depending on your space requirements, select either the minimum space (expanding disk) or max space (non-expanding disk).

“Powered on machine” and “This local machine” tells the converter to look at the currently booted VM system.

From the menu bar, select “Convert Machine” to start the conversion wizard.

Install the VMWare Converter onto the VM.

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Sign up for a VMWare account and download their (quite excellent) VMWare Converter.You may need to reboot after this (it will prompt you if so). From the Control Panel, uninstall the Parallels Tools software.This is as easy as copy-pasting the pvm in ~/Documents/Parallels. Make a backup copy of the Parallels image, just in case something goes terribly wrong.I used an existing SMB share from one of our Mac servers – you can also use a USB disk if that is easier for you.

You will need somewhere to store the image that is NOT on the C: drive of the machine you are converting. There are other tools to do this directly from Parallels -> VHD without this intermediate step, but none that I have found on a Mac just yet. We do this by prepping the image and then using VMWare’s Converter tool to live-create a VHD file out of the VM. There’s a chance that I may try out VMWare Fusion for the ESXi integration that Rich Trouton writes about for a future project, but for now – getting my Windows VMs into a standard format is the task at hand. Provided by Oracle and free, it does the things I need for testing environments. As I find my need for virtual machines increasing and my satisfaction with Parallels new licensing options decreasing, I am working on converting much of my testing to use VirtualBox.

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