Installing VirtualBox on Windows

Downloading Ubuntu image

Creating a VM with the Ubuntu image

Assigning root privilege to user

Restart the VM and hit F12 to access the Advanced Options Select the recovery mode and this will give a list of options One of the options will be “Drop to root shell”, select this option A shell will option that will ask for the current user’s password Run the command usermod -aG root <username> to add user to root Run the command whoami and this will now display root

Installing the guest additions - for copy/paste