Chapter 2Creating an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with VirtualBox
If you’re worried about messing up your computer while you’re trying to learn to use the command-line interface, you can install software that lets you create virtual machines. This software borrows your computer’s CPU, memory, and other resources and allocates it to an emulated computer. Virtual machines are great for development and testing; you can install a separate operating system on a virtual machine, and you can then do all of your work in this virtual environment without affecting the host operating system.
In this chapter, you’ll create a test environment that you’ll use for the rest of this book. You’ll install VirtualBox—a free, open-source application that creates virtual ...
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