Ubuntu 24.04 and VirtualBox

[Jarret B]

I have recently tried installing Ubuntu 24.04 (whether the regular, version .1 or .2) on VirtualBox. During the installation, I used the defaults and it kept locking up the Virtual Machine. It took a little time before I realized to prevent this issue, I had to increase the default RAM from 2048 MB (2 GB) to 4096 MB (4 GB) or higher for the installation to complete without errors or freezing.

 

[wizardfromoz]

That's interesting to know, Jarret, thanks for sharing.

I would invite @KGIII and @guiverc to comment on this if they are aware of it and have knowledge to share - they are both on the Lubuntu/Ubuntu team.

Subject to what they might reveal, there might be call to pin this Thread.

Chris

 

[KGIII]

I can make some time to poke at it this weekend. In my current bandwidth situation, that's a 'large' download. So, I'll have to time the download as I don't have a current Ubuntu iso.

I also use 4 GB of RAM as the default with VMs.

 

[PuppyHome]

I also use 4 GB of RAM as the default with VMs.

Same here.

 

[KGIII]

I can confirm that it froze with 2 GB of RAM.

It was a 6.3 GB .iso that kept stopping while downloading. Again, I'm bandwidth impoverished.

With 4 GB of RAM it seemed to be going just fine, but it wanted to download (even with the default settings) updates that totaled a lot of bandwidth. So, I ran out of patience. However, it made it well into the installation process with 4 GB of RAM.

So, my assumption is that there's now some sort of limit.
This page of official documentation seems to indicate a 4 GB of RAM as the minimum.

Installation/SystemRequirements - Community Help Wiki

 

[dos2unix]

I was able to run it in 2GB, CLI server only. No X-windows. 24.04 LTS server.