

You will find the distribution codename after the field “Codename”. To know it, open a terminal and type this command: lsb_release-a On this step, you need to know the distribution codename of your Ubuntu version. The official (and hopefully responsibly updated) instructions are located on this external link. I installed VirtualBox 5.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). This post was written on November 2018, so instructions may vary in later versions. VirtualBox is a free and open source virtualization software from Oracle. There are different virtual machines available for Linux/Ubuntu, but in this tutorial we are using Oracle VM VirtualBox.
