Install Ubuntu 15 10 on Windows 10 VirtualBox

Ubuntu 15.10 is now available, this video show how to install it on Windows 10 with VirtualBox.


With Addition CD Image installed, we can improve screen resolution and share folder between guest Linux and host running Windows.

This video show how to, and the screen reesolution improved.


To share folder, setup Shared Folder in VirtualBox Setting of the guest, assign a machine folder in host. Then run the command in guest Ubuntu Linux
$ sudo mount -t vboxsf vbShare mntShare

where:
vbShare is the shared folder in host, and assigned as Shared Folder in VirtualBox Setting of the guest.
mntShare is the folder in guest Ubuntu Linux.

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Related:
- Install Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 on Windows 10/VirtualBox

Related features:
- Record screen video of VirtualBox guest OS
- Share Clipboard and DragnDrop between VirtualBox guest Linux and host Windows

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VirtualBox auto mount shared folder

The post demonstrate how to "Install Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 on Windows 10/VirtualBox", and also share folder between Windows host and Ubuntu guest user folder, in command line/shell script.

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Starting with version 4.0, VirtualBox can mount shared folders automatically. In case on Linux guests, auto-mounted shared folders are mounted into the /media directory, along with the prefix sf_. For example, the shared folder myfiles would be mounted to /media/sf_myfiles on Linux and /mnt/sf_myfiles on Solaris.

Access to auto-mounted shared folders is only granted to the user group vboxsf, which is created by the VirtualBox Guest Additions installer. Hence guest users have to be member of that group to have read/write access or to have read-only access in case the folder is not mapped writable.

(reference: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sf_mount_auto)

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In order to use the share folder feature, you have to "Insert Guest Additions CD images".


The below video show how to create share folder between host Windows (D:vbShare) and guest Ubuntu Linux (/media/sf_vbShare), and add current user to the vboxsf group with the command:
$ sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf eric
where:
vboxsf is the user group own the shared folder
eric is the the current user

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Install Ubuntu GNOME 15 10 on Windows 10 VirtualBox

Ubuntu GNOME is an official flavor of Ubuntu, featuring the GNOME desktop environment. This video show how to install Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 on Windows 10 with VirtualBox. (Basically, its same as Install Ubuntu 15.10 on Windows 10/VirtualBox).

Download Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 and install on VirtualBox.


Insert Guest Additions CD Image to improve display resolution.


Create shared folder between guest Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 and host Windows 10.

To share folder, setup Shared Folder in VirtualBox Setting of the guest, assign a machine folder in host. Then run the command in guest Ubuntu Linux
$ sudo mount -t vboxsf vbShare mntShare

where:
vbShare is the shared folder in host, and assigned as Shared Folder in VirtualBox Setting of the guest.
mntShare is the folder in guest Ubuntu Linux.


remark@2015-11-14:
Starting with version 4.0, VirtualBox can mount shared folders automatically. This post show how to create share folder between host Windows (D:vbShare) and guest Ubuntu Linux (/media/sf_vbShare), and add current user to the vboxsf group.

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