For me performance of guest-machine got significantly improved.

Now simply reboot you guest-machine and choose LXDE at logon screen. Open terminal in your guest-machine and install necessary packages:Īnd that’s it. To have more you need to download Extension Pack for VirtualBox (and install Guest Additions for guest-machine). Having done that you might notice that you can only have maximum 1024x768 resolution. Insert Linux installation image (I usen Debian) into machine, start it and install Linux there. In that case you’ll need to go to Security & Privacy and allow it ( Open Anyway).Ĭreate a new virtual machine. Nothing special here, except for maybe Gatekeeper (or whoever) that might block VirtualBox from installing/starting. Install VirtualBox and create a machine.The aim is to get a Linux guest-machine running in a fullscreen mode on a dedicated desktop (screen) with a decent performance. But actually it’s not about Mac OS and all the steps will be the same for Windows and Linux hosts too. In this article I’ll try to get into all (okay, maybe not all) possible troubles related to using a VirtualBox guest-machine with Linux, running on a Mac OS (High Sierra, 10.13) host.

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