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Setting up an Ubuntu Linux VM

In this section, we will see how to set up Linux (Ubuntu) on a virtual machine, so that a Windows user can also develop and test their .NET Core 2.0 applications in Linux. To do so, let’s start with the VirtualBox setup. Oracle provides an open source VirtualBox executable, which we downloaded in the previous section. The following are the steps we need to follow to set up VirtualBox:

Double-click on the VirtualBox executable. It will open a wizard. Before installation, click on Disk usage and check Disk Space Requirement. It is recommended that the virtual machine for Ubuntu Linux is set up with at least 2 GB RAM and 25 GB free hard drive space. So, instead of choosing the default drive (the C drive in our ...

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