I started by downloading both virtual machine software and Ubuntu for this assignment. I chose Oracle's VM virtualbox because we had used it in class and I was most familiar with it, although their are alternatives. (
http://lifehacker.com/5714966/five-best-virtual-machine-applications)
Once they were installed I set up the virtual machine by setting the amount of virtual RAM and hard drive space i would give it. I chose 2 GB of RAM just to make sure everything ran smoothly and 15 GB. I then selected Ubuntu as the operating system and launched Oracle.
