Quickly Creating a VirtualBox Burner for Testing

posted 2013.11.26

  • virtualbox development
  1. Download your preferred Ubuntu ISO
  2. Create a new linux virtualbox with a new HD
  3. Attach the Ubuntu ISO to the new virtualbox
  4. Install Ubuntu to the virtualbox
  5. Shut down the virtualbox
  6. Temporarily detach the virtualbox’s .vdi hard drive image
  7. Make the .vdi image “immutable”: VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_IMAGE.vdi --type immutable
  8. Reattach the .vdi image to the virtualbox