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Ubuntu VM's Already Made

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Does anyone know where you can get an Ubuntu 11.0 VM already created? I am trying to test Ubuntu in Virtual Box and didn't want to have to go through an install it there is Vm's already created.

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answered 1 Year ago uquelighted · Accepted Answer

It is possible to download a preconfigured virtual machine for Virtual Box e.g. from

Virtual Boxes

At present a compressed image for Ubuntu 11.10 x86 is 608 MB, slightly less than a real installation CD.

However as was already said in comments I personally do not recommed to do so for several good reasons:

it is a security issue because there is no way to find out what the person who set up the machine may have installed in addition.

you can but you can not so easily customize your Ubuntu users (admin users, password, locale etc.) after the initial installation has been done.

There is no easy way to change the size of the virtual hard drive for your personal needs.

In case you need to reinstall or configure the virtual machine you will need to have access to a "live" environment, which is not provided with the image you downloaded.

Installing Ubuntu is an extremely easy task that will take you less than 20 minutes. This is also true when installing in a virtual machine. Therefore there is no good reason (not even being lazy) to not install Ubuntu directly.

For testing you could even boot your virtual machine to an Ubuntu live environment from the installation CD .iso without installation in a minute (but then you will not have benefits from Guest Additions)

In summary: you do not need a preconfigured virtual machine for testing Ubuntu.