On the next screen, I selected the amount of RAM from my Windows laptop that the virtual machine will access, taking into account the recommended system requirements for Ubuntu Desktop.Īfter that, you can select how much of your hard disk your VM will use. I created a new virtual machine, with the following details: Version 6.1.36 r152435 (Qt5.6.2) Create a new virtual machine I already had VirtualBox on my Windows laptop.

Either a DVD drive or a USB port for the installer media.

LTS stands for long-term support - which means five years, until April 2027, of free security and maintenance updates, guaranteed. I downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ( (3,40 GB)), the latest LTS version of Ubuntu, for desktop PCs and laptops.

Among others, I also had a look at “How to Install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux on VirtualBox using Windows 10” via, which was very helpful. Because not everything went according to plan. Next, I will describe these installation steps. NET).Īs an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applicationsįor installing Ubuntu Desktop using VirtualBox, I followed the instructions “How to run Ubuntu Desktop on a virtual machine using VirtualBox”: It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages and runtimes (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. In a later article I will describe, as an alternative, installing Ubuntu Desktop with the help of Vagrant, including Visual Studio Code and Node.js. In this article the focus will be on manually installing Ubuntu Desktop. In this article, I will share with you the steps I took, to get this working within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance.

On my Windows laptop, I wanted to create an environment with Ubuntu as guest Operating System, Visual Studio Code and Node.js available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. For a TypeScript training, I needed an environment with Visual Studio Code and Node.js (a JavaScript runtime).

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