While trying something like dual-booting, this option can be disastrous, so only use it on a disk which has no data on it.Ĭlick Install Now, and the installation process will begin. Just select “Erase Disk and Install Elementary OS” option. Since we are using a virtual disk this is not going to be an issue. These third-party software are needed for multimedia and driver support. Certain media encoding schemes are not available on Ubuntu and its derivatives by default. This will make the experience much smoother. Let’s pick the latter option.Ĭheck the “Download Update” and “Install Third Party software” options. Once the VM has started, you will be asked whether you want to just try the OS or install it.
You can open the file explorer and locate the ISO to boot the VM. Since the current VM has no bootable disk, it will insist the user to provide one. Start the VM by double clicking on it from your VirtualBox interface. You can use this ISO to boot your VM and start the installation process. Once you have downloaded the ISO for Elementary OS, which is about 1.4GB in size. But the operating system itself is open source, just because you can pay for it doesn’t mean it is proprietary. Here, you can also wish to pay for your operating system any amount you desire if you want to support the project. You can get a copy of Elementary OS from their official site. Memory is set to 2048 MB and then we create a new virtual hard disk.Ĭlick on Create and the VM is created, but the OS is not installed on its virtual hard disk yet. Its type is going to be Linux and its version Ubuntu(64-bit).
So we open VirtualBox manager, click on New and give our VM a proper name. However, that’s not the minimum requirement and to keep if you are short on memory even 2GB of it will suffice. The distro recommends 4GB of memory and at least 15GB of storage for the installation. It will set a nice baseline to see the improvements next release will bring forward. With that in mind, let’s install the version 0.4.1, code named Loki, on VirtualBox and explore what potential this distro holds. However, a newer release 5.0 based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is in Beta and is expected to hit the market soon enough. The latest stable release is 0.4.1 based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system. It’s custom desktop environment called Patheon is very reminiscent of the Mac experience although the underlying technology is not at all the same.
Elementary os vmware for mac os#
If Linux Mint is an operating system for Windows users trying out Linux for the first time, then Elementary OS is for Mac OS users.