I ran into the issue where I would reach 100% of the initial installation and then the instance would crash. I would then get this huge crash report. Decided to share because through multiple threads and dead ends I found a user with a solution. Solution: Disable audio in the settings before running the instance. This fixed my problem and no longer crashed when going through the installation.
nice tutorial!) guys, if u have an error when adding the disk image 13:21, go to Settings -> Storage and add ur install .iso as IDE Primary Device 0 (remove the empty one there if necessary ), after that start your virtual machine -> it should boot into installation
In case the screen resizing is not working for anyone, open a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-dkms and then restart
For some reason even after making the guest addition, the screen resolution remained the same. Ended up doing sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms(on Ubuntu terminal). This did it for me. Hope it helps someone
This comment is what I needed! Thanks so much. Just a follow-up... Although I can now use full-screen mode, the resolution is fairly low. Is that just the way it is or can that be improved?
@@juseniah Yeah that happened with me too. Try going to Displays in settings. It helped when I enabled fractional scaling and set the scale to my liking(in my case I think it was 150 or 125%). Play around with resolution too if you like. Hope this helps.
MY MAN!!!! TAHNK YOU! 1M TIMES. I tried to instal linux in my mid 2012 mac book pro. Struggling all nigth, failed. Tried use virtual box 7, and ubuntu 22. Then i searched and found this video, Awesoome. I downloaded virtual box 6, ubuntu 20, follow this instruction and, Success. this happened on 03-01-24. Again, Thank you man!
If your installation reaches 100% but then it says "aborted", on virtual box audio settings: DISABLE AUDIO (un-check both audio input and output) AND set audio driver at : NULL Audio Driver!
I tried but it did not work D: any other suggestions? Edit: OMGOMGOMG NVM I DIDNT SEE MAKE IT NULL AUDIO DRIVER OMGOMGOMG YEEESSSSS IVE BEEN TRYING FOR 4 HOUSRS YEEYYEEESSSSSS THANKKK YOU SDSOOOOOOO MUCHCHHHHHH
Thank you, this video really helped me out a lot. My terminal on my mac is all mess up, so I decided to learn how to do development on Linux and start fresh with ubuntu.
Thank you so much for this video, I was able to install the virtual machine and Ubuntu 22.04. The video was very helpful. Am new to tech, studying google Cybersecurity certification.
For those having some issues with UI lag, this *may* help... Virtual Box supports up to 256 MB of video RAM. This can not be set using the slider of the Virtual Box Manager. To make full use of all supported memory we can issue the following command in a terminal: VBoxManage modifyvm "Name of VM" --vram 256 Before we change settings such as the video RAM a pre-existing virtual machine has to be shut down. Note that for 3D video hardware acceleration from the guest addition's video driver the physical RAM of the host graphics card will be passed through. The video RAM settings of the virtual machine will not affect this.
Appreciate this video. My first ever VM that I've created. Just starting out in the IT world and I'm trying to learn different aspects to help me grow. Thanks for making this simple and easy to follow. I'm having issues with the auto-resizing, doesn't change itself automatically for me or allow full screen. But hey ho, problems are made to be solved! Thanks again!
I believe now there’s some terminal commands you need to use. Take a look at this: askubuntu.com/questions/22743/how-do-i-install-guest-additions-in-a-virtualbox-vm Put the dkms command first and then the install guest additions one. Should fix the resizing. I have an updated Ubuntu video coming out tomorrow showing this.
That’s a common error now. I have a video showing how to fix it “NS error failure” you can also check out my latest Ubuntu tutorial. I show how to fix it in there too.
this is splendid! Now once this installation is done, is it the case that you have basically a dual-boot mac? What I will be wanting, ultimately, is a mac that has been fully taken over by Ubuntu, with no mac crumbs left hiding in the corners, somewhere. Is it possible to do a full installation on the target mac, with virtualbox? I know there are methods for doing this with a startup usb stick, but the mac does not seem to want to startup from a usb stick (os 10.15.x on a 2015 vintage mac air.)
I followed everything but when i go to click start and add the ubuntu file i get a virtualbox vm quit unexpectedly. then says failed to open a session with virtual machine Ubuntu 20.04
Sounds like an NS error. You might need to put the iso in yourself in the vm settings. I actually have a video coming out Thursday on how to fix this error. It could be something else though.
So I followed your instructions to the T, but my vbox is shutdown while loading Ubuntu. It is giving me an error saying the application quit unexpectedly. Any idea why that would be happening?
It keeps aborting and displays this message:You must specify a machine to start, using the command line. Usage: VirtualBoxVM --startvm <name|UUID> Starts the VirtualBox virtual machine with the given name or unique identifier (UUID).
Hard drive space (VDI) can be increased on dynamically allocated drives using the VirtualBox Tools (Media Manager). The space can't be decreased, however.
It's really helpful! Many thanks. Can you make another video to teach us how to set up shared folders? I selected the folder in the Mac VirtualBox settings, but I still don’t know where I can find this folder in Ubuntu, so of course, I can’t use it.
@@BenjaminsTech Many thanks! Because our professor asked us to set this, and I searched on the Internet for a long time but could not find a suitable solution and still don't know what step went wrong.
@@BenjaminsTech And I have set up a VM, but when I want to change the system's memory, why is the display in “system” is all gray and cannot be adjusted？
Hi Benjamin! Thank you for this video. I had issues with the installation My window doesn't resize even though I follow all your instructions correctly.
Hi ben, the first time i tried to show the processor for the first time i clicked out of the file to add the Ubuntu folder. the screen at 13.02 seconds is not loading now. what do you advise i do?
Oh man you are the lifesaver for me right now, I have spent 4 full days to install ubuntu virtual machine on my WD passport HDD, and I couldn’t find any tutorial working, so I went to forums, and then my mac got the standard error of VM "kernel not downloaded" one, I was mad some are saying you need to reinstall macOS and add some stuff, but it was not that much it is really simple, like 2 min thing(if anyone got that write that here I will tell you). Then finally Ubuntu was running by using this tutorial. I set passwd and I just forgot that like 2 min ago I set and now I completely forgot that, So, I tried to run it in recovery mode and rewrite the password. But in mac, it is not opening in recovery mode. So, I took HDD to my windows laptop and BOOM. it opened in recovery mode. But there username was not detected. So I completely reinstall Ubuntu VM.then I am finally running Ubuntu VM on my HDD on any laptop having VirtualMachine. Anything anyone needs to know then tell me :)
@@PrinceDalsaniyaYT I installed Virtual Box but when I try to run a machine the “kernel not installed” error keeps appearing, do you know how to solve it?
@@Ranaraj01 go to settings of virtual box then go to storage there empty is written, go to right side there you would find folder kind of button click then choose add disk type click then select ubuntu iso file click ok then again do this process
I found I have to set the audio driver to "NULL Audio Driver" for ubuntu 20.04 to install, otherwise the installation will abort within 1 minutes. Seems MacOS permission issue, but I didn't dig deeper to see why.
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2012 with an upgraded RAM of 16 GB and a Crucial SSD of 500 GB. It seems to be slow for the Ubuntu installation and I got the blue and black screens with previous attempts. Any advice?
Man, do you have Big Sur? If yes, then I have the same problem and I don't know how to fix it for 2 days. I tried removing it from storage and installing again but it didn't help. If you find a solution, can u share It here please
@@nitishkumargupta2787 try to press cmd + c and it will ask you to switch to scale mode, and in this mode u can resize the window. This is maximum I could find.
I have an older Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina. I'm afraid of messing it up. Hopefully this VM Ubuntu tutorial will run smoothly on it🤞. I read running a Live USB stick Within the Linux VM tricks it into thinking it's running on the actual hard drive. What do you think?
This is an awesome tutorial - thanks for doing it! my only issue is the window does not update resolution on resizing the window despite running the guest additions CD image. Any tips?
It can be buggy sometimes. You have to resize the window yourself after restart to get it to start changing. Changing the scale factor also might help.
Just released an updated 2021 tutorial! Be sure to check it out, I show how to fix some common errors too! ruclips.net/video/04ZNAKmm0dI/видео.html
I ran into the issue where I would reach 100% of the initial installation and then the instance would crash. I would then get this huge crash report. Decided to share because through multiple threads and dead ends I found a user with a solution.
Solution: Disable audio in the settings before running the instance. This fixed my problem and no longer crashed when going through the installation.
thank you so much, I have tried everything and this was the only way!
Thank you SO much for posting this! I've been getting so frustrated, and never would've thought of that!
thank you a lot, had the same issue
Life saver!
Legend. Thank you
nice tutorial!) guys, if u have an error when adding the disk image 13:21, go to Settings -> Storage and add ur install .iso as IDE Primary Device 0 (remove the empty one there if necessary
), after that start your virtual machine -> it should boot into installation
Man, This tutorial was incredible. good pace, and easy to follow. Thanks !
THIS IS THE ONE I AM LOOKING FOR !!! THANKS A LOT! REALLY DETAILED AND HELPFUL!!!
If you experience 'Unexpected crash' then try disabling audio in vm settings - worked for me
Thank you very much, this helped.
thank you
super!
thank you very much
In case the screen resizing is not working for anyone, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-dkms
and then restart
Thank you! This worked - whew
Thank you!
THANK YOU
Very Useful tidbit, Thank you!
A colleague sent me here and I found this awesome and simple to follow... Thank you!
For some reason even after making the guest addition, the screen resolution remained the same. Ended up doing sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms(on Ubuntu terminal). This did it for me. Hope it helps someone
thank youuuu
OMG, you saved my life! I tried many different ways, none of them worked!
This comment is what I needed! Thanks so much. Just a follow-up... Although I can now use full-screen mode, the resolution is fairly low. Is that just the way it is or can that be improved?
@@juseniah Yeah that happened with me too. Try going to Displays in settings. It helped when I enabled fractional scaling and set the scale to my liking(in my case I think it was 150 or 125%). Play around with resolution too if you like. Hope this helps.
@@saylee1207 That did it! Thanks again!
pretty much what I was looking for, I was interested in the screen resize part, thank you so much Benjamin.
MY MAN!!!! TAHNK YOU! 1M TIMES. I tried to instal linux in my mid 2012 mac book pro. Struggling all nigth, failed. Tried use virtual box 7, and ubuntu 22. Then i searched and found this video, Awesoome. I downloaded virtual box 6, ubuntu 20, follow this instruction and, Success. this happened on 03-01-24. Again, Thank you man!
If your installation reaches 100% but then it says "aborted", on virtual box audio settings:
DISABLE AUDIO (un-check both audio input and output) AND set audio driver at : NULL Audio Driver!
THANK YOU MATE
You’re the best❤️❤️❤️
I tried but it did not work D: any other suggestions?
Edit: OMGOMGOMG NVM I DIDNT SEE MAKE IT NULL AUDIO DRIVER OMGOMGOMG YEEESSSSS IVE BEEN TRYING FOR 4 HOUSRS YEEYYEEESSSSSS THANKKK YOU SDSOOOOOOO MUCHCHHHHHH
Thanks a lot!! You saved my life
Defo, one of the best tutorials I ever had. Thanks Benjamin!
Thank you, this video really helped me out a lot. My terminal on my mac is all mess up, so I decided to learn how to do development on Linux and start fresh with ubuntu.
Thanks man...easily installed with ur steps...itz simple and u have shown it in detail. Really appreciate your work.
Thank you so much for this video, I was able to install the virtual machine and Ubuntu 22.04. The video was very helpful. Am new to tech, studying google Cybersecurity certification.
For those having some issues with UI lag, this *may* help...
Virtual Box supports up to 256 MB of video RAM. This can not be set using the slider of the Virtual Box Manager.
To make full use of all supported memory we can issue the following command in a terminal:
VBoxManage modifyvm "Name of VM" --vram 256
Before we change settings such as the video RAM a pre-existing virtual machine has to be shut down.
Note that for 3D video hardware acceleration from the guest addition's video driver the physical RAM of the host graphics card will be passed through. The video RAM settings of the virtual machine will not affect this.
good stuff. worked like a charm. Thank you. Your video was the easiest to understand and complete. I am going to recommend this video.
Appreciate this video. My first ever VM that I've created. Just starting out in the IT world and I'm trying to learn different aspects to help me grow. Thanks for making this simple and easy to follow. I'm having issues with the auto-resizing, doesn't change itself automatically for me or allow full screen. But hey ho, problems are made to be solved! Thanks again!
I believe now there’s some terminal commands you need to use. Take a look at this: askubuntu.com/questions/22743/how-do-i-install-guest-additions-in-a-virtualbox-vm Put the dkms command first and then the install guest additions one. Should fix the resizing. I have an updated Ubuntu video coming out tomorrow showing this.
Thank you for making a both a video for this and how to fix error messages!😁
Very well explained at a great pace. Thanks so much for this!
This video helped me a ton! So clear and easy to follow :) Thank you so much!!
I spent 4 hours crying bc i couldn't do the HW. Thanks man!
Thank you so much for making my life easier!!! Very detailed and guided. Feel so relieved now after installing ubuntu :)
I followed as is and it works like a charm thanks , moving to get my docker inside the vbox now
Thanks a lot Mr.Benjamin! This video is very much helpful with every necessary setting explained!
Thanks again for the video. It helped me with the installation. The screensaver in the background is cool, you should get the McLaren MP4-12C.
Yea I have a 12C background at one point, but I found this 570s background with much better quality.
I respect you for making this video because it helps alot to beginners like me.
Now I am good to go to work on my operating system class assignments and projects. Thanks lot!!
i didnt expect it to work wow thank you so much bro
Appreciate the video very helpful! Earned my like man Thanks =)
man thx a lot, i finally installed ubuntu. It's took me so many times! tysm
I had some of the same install problems on my Mac. I finally found a workaround in the forums by using an earlier version of VB from last year.
very helpul video and hats off man!🤗
Thank you everything went smoothly.
Thanks so much! Great video, helped me a lot!
Thank you, you saved my life! Perfect tutorial!!
Thanks from Germany, very good and detailed video !!
Thanks for the guide video, helped me follow through entire installation process.
Cheers!!
on 13:10, when I clicked Add, the VM session was aborted, and I don't know how and why. It won't let me select the ISO.
That’s a common error now. I have a video showing how to fix it “NS error failure” you can also check out my latest Ubuntu tutorial. I show how to fix it in there too.
Thank you so much for this video, it's exactly what I was looking for!
great guide! almost done installing :D
Thanks Dude! One thing to watch out for Ubuntu 20.04 is to disable the Audio settings in VirtualBox as it would not start without it.
The best explanation I’ve ever seen.
Thank you so much, Ben! Very clear and concise sets of instruction.
Thanks. Straightforward & clear!
Excellent! Clear and straightforward.
You rock! thanks for the great tutorial!
this is splendid! Now once this installation is done, is it the case that you have basically a dual-boot mac? What I will be wanting, ultimately, is a mac that has been fully taken over by Ubuntu, with no mac crumbs left hiding in the corners, somewhere. Is it possible to do a full installation on the target mac, with virtualbox? I know there are methods for doing this with a startup usb stick, but the mac does not seem to want to startup from a usb stick (os 10.15.x on a 2015 vintage mac air.)
Great video man ! Thanks a lot
Everything works at its best!!
Man you are the boss ! Thanks a lot !
Just what I needed, thanks a lot!!
thank you sooo much .it was really helpful
I followed everything but when i go to click start and add the ubuntu file i get a virtualbox vm quit unexpectedly. then says failed to open a session with virtual machine Ubuntu 20.04
Sounds like an NS error. You might need to put the iso in yourself in the vm settings. I actually have a video coming out Thursday on how to fix this error. It could be something else though.
@@BenjaminsTech yeah, thank you, I got help from my cousin. Everything is working great now. Thank you so much. You getting a sub from me for sure.
So nice to have an instruction video done without idiotic music in the background.
Hello you are a GODSEND thank you so much for the detailed walk through
Clear and to the point. Thanks!
Thanks, super helpful video!!
Thanks man, this helped a lot!
This was extremely helpful. Thanx, a LOT!
Very clean, helpful. Thank you very much
So I followed your instructions to the T, but my vbox is shutdown while loading Ubuntu. It is giving me an error saying the application quit unexpectedly. Any idea why that would be happening?
That's interesting. Does it happen every time you try, or at a certain spot?
@@BenjaminsTech I think I figured it out. I had to disable audio through the settings.
@@siddharth.sohoni thank you! I run into the same issue on macOS Catalina and disabling the audio does indeed fix the problem!
@@siddharth.sohoni It actually was the audio! Thank you so much.
I've been trying to download ubuntu from past 2 months and today finally my old shitty mac is running ubuntu
great explanation mate!
Thanks alot man helped for my Sys Admin server building final
Thank you very much for sharing - great tutorial!
Very helpful step-by-step guidance. Now, to get python on here... thanks
Thank you!! This helped so much!!
Thanks so much, Benjamin! It works in the future too!
thank you Ben i am a comp sci student and needed Ubuntu vm for Linux assembly language
Extremely helpful, thank you!
hi when i selected start and then click add it says failed to open a session for the virtual machine ubuntu? do you know how to go around that
Is there more to that error?
Very useful, i successfully installed it in mac.
Thanks for the video Benjamin. One question, is the FacetimeHD operational from the VM?
There is someway to make it work but I am not sure how. I have never been able to get it or usb to work.
@@BenjaminsTech Thanks Benjamin
It keeps aborting and displays this message:You must specify a machine to start, using the command line.
Usage: VirtualBoxVM --startvm <name|UUID>
Starts the VirtualBox virtual machine with the given name or unique identifier (UUID).
I am going to have to look into this. You are the third person with this error. Not sure what can be causing it.
@@BenjaminsTech Maybe could you solve this ?
@@andrescubides3387 I solved this by disabling audio settings in VM!
@@baro53186 Oh! Man. Thank you so much for help me!!! I was trying to solve this problem but I haven't found solutions. God bless you. My friend.
@@baro53186 Thank you! This really solved my problem!
Great video tutorial it's working on my device iOS
Great tutorial, thanks.
Thank you VERY VERY MUCH!! I did it! Thanks to YOU!))
Hard drive space (VDI) can be increased on dynamically allocated drives using the VirtualBox Tools (Media Manager). The space can't be decreased, however.
It's really helpful! Many thanks. Can you make another video to teach us how to set up shared folders? I selected the folder in the Mac VirtualBox settings, but I still don’t know where I can find this folder in Ubuntu, so of course, I can’t use it.
I’ll consider making one! I haven’t really used shared folders that much.
@@BenjaminsTech Many thanks! Because our professor asked us to set this, and I searched on the Internet for a long time but could not find a suitable solution and still don't know what step went wrong.
@@BenjaminsTech And I have set up a VM, but when I want to change the system's memory, why is the display in “system” is all gray and cannot be adjusted？
Hi Benjamin! Thank you for this video. I had issues with the installation
My window doesn't resize even though I follow all your instructions correctly.
I’m not sure. Maybe need to install guest addition through the terminal? I think there’s some comments on here where they have a solution.
Hi ben, the first time i tried to show the processor for the first time i clicked out of the file to add the Ubuntu folder. the screen at 13.02 seconds is not loading now. what do you advise i do?
I’m not near a computer right now to look, but you should be able to go to devices in the menu bar, then optical, and you can insert the iso there.
Easy and efficient ! thanks a lot
This is so helpful and it worked great. I was wondering if after I customize it is there any way to get the iso file for the customized version?
I’m not sure what you mean. Iso is just to install Ubuntu.
Followed the steps perfectly up until the guest addition part, I was given an error
Oh man you are the lifesaver for me right now, I have spent 4 full days to install ubuntu virtual machine on my WD passport HDD, and I couldn’t find any tutorial working, so I went to forums, and then my mac got the standard error of VM "kernel not downloaded" one, I was mad some are saying you need to reinstall macOS and add some stuff, but it was not that much it is really simple, like 2 min thing(if anyone got that write that here I will tell you). Then finally Ubuntu was running by using this tutorial. I set passwd and I just forgot that like 2 min ago I set and now I completely forgot that, So, I tried to run it in recovery mode and rewrite the password. But in mac, it is not opening in recovery mode. So, I took HDD to my windows laptop and BOOM. it opened in recovery mode. But there username was not detected. So I completely reinstall Ubuntu VM.then I am finally running Ubuntu VM on my HDD on any laptop having VirtualMachine. Anything anyone needs to know then tell me :)
Heyyy I can´t solve the kernel not downloaded problem I have reinstalled macOS what can I do?
@@luciaalvarez37 I couldn't understand the problem can you elaborate more. Please.
@@PrinceDalsaniyaYT I installed Virtual Box but when I try to run a machine the “kernel not installed” error keeps appearing, do you know how to solve it?
13:19 when I click on the add button , it gives me an error: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Ubuntu . after this the VMM crashes .
Same ,how you resolved it?
Saame😩😩, did you find a solution?
@@Ranaraj01 go to settings of virtual box then go to storage there empty is written, go to right side there you would find folder kind of button click then choose add disk type click then select ubuntu iso file click ok then again do this process
I also having this issue can someone pls send a help?
I found I have to set the audio driver to "NULL Audio Driver" for ubuntu 20.04 to install, otherwise the installation will abort within 1 minutes. Seems MacOS permission issue, but I didn't dig deeper to see why.
Downloader not working without turn off defender. But i turned off and it worked. THANKS !
I have a MacBook Pro mid-2012 with an upgraded RAM of 16 GB and a Crucial SSD of 500 GB. It seems to be slow for the Ubuntu installation and I got the blue and black screens with previous attempts. Any advice?
Thanks for the tutorial! Couldn't get the display to automatically resize after installing guest additions and restarting VM. Any suggestions?
Thats strange. I’m not sure what could be causing that.
@@BenjaminsTech Thanks anyway! I'll reply if I figure it out.
Man, do you have Big Sur? If yes, then I have the same problem and I don't know how to fix it for 2 days. I tried removing it from storage and installing again but it didn't help. If you find a solution, can u share It here please
I have the same problem. I am on Big Sur. I even tried reinstalling Ubuntu but it didn't help. Please share if you find any solution
@@nitishkumargupta2787 try to press cmd + c and it will ask you to switch to scale mode, and in this mode u can resize the window. This is maximum I could find.
You are a lifesaver thank you sooooooooo much
thank u it worked
I have an older Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina. I'm afraid of messing it up. Hopefully this VM Ubuntu tutorial will run smoothly on it🤞. I read running a Live USB stick Within the Linux VM tricks it into thinking it's running on the actual hard drive. What do you think?
This is an awesome tutorial - thanks for doing it! my only issue is the window does not update resolution on resizing the window despite running the guest additions CD image. Any tips?
It can be buggy sometimes. You have to resize the window yourself after restart to get it to start changing. Changing the scale factor also might help.
Amazing!!!
saved my life
this is a life saver thank you
thank you so much dude you're a god
I followed your tutorial until the last 2 minutes when you added the cd image from device menu. Mine won't allow me to inert disk.