But, if you decide to go down the Virtualbox route, let me know on here and I will take you through it in more detail. My very strong recommendation is that you use the pendrivelinux method. From the Device for boot loader installation drop list 1.) Choose your USB drive. In this video i will show you how to make a USB Pendrive Bootable. You will now have a UM 16.04 ISO burned to your USB stick on your host machine Using the on-board USB creator software, burn your UM ISO to the USB stickĬlose the VM. It should now appear as an available drive in the VM.

Go into your VM settings and allow it to be able to see your host’s usb drive and any stick you might put in it.įire up your Linux VM again and plug in your host’s usb stick. Install the guest additions module (though, Linux Mint may already have it installed), then close your VM Install the linux distro to a VM in virtualboxįire up the VM and log into your VM linux distro Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7 This is sort of a long tutorial, but there are only a few actionable items. Install the extension pack into virtualbox

Download a linux distro iso that has a built in USB creator software (Linux mint has a very easy-to-use USB creator built in).Another, less simple but definitely doable, way of doing it is to install the windows version of Virtualbox.

Pendrivelinux universal usb installer