Now you will be able to select the accounts you want to have permission to use this virtual machine and click “Next”. 25GB is the recommended amount of space required so to be safe, choose something around 30GB and click the blue “Next” button. You can skip the next two settings, under “Virtual Disk” you will need to allocate space for the Virtual Machine. Under “ISO file for bootup” you need to choose the “System Image” you created before.

Now you can choose how much RAM you want your Virtual Machine to have, it is reccomended that you allocate at least 2GB of RAM.

NOTE: It’s recommended to choose a minimum of 2 CPU cores for a Virtual Machine to run effectively. The first thing we want to do is give it a Name, any name you want, next in line is the amount of CPU cores we want to use. Now we can configure all the specs for our Virtual Machine. The creation method we will be using is the ISO File method, choose that one and click “Next”. And after a short wait, our system image will be created.īack on the Diskstation interface inside the Virtual Machine Manager package, choose “Virtual Machine” down the left side.Īcross the top, click on the “Create” button and choose “Create”. Now choose where you downloaded the Ubuntu image to and click “Browse”, select the image with the blue “Select” button once you’ve located it and then click “Next”, now place a tick next to the “Your NAS” and click on the blue “Apply” button.

Under “Name” you can select the System Image’s name. Set up the Ubuntu ISO Image by selecting “System Image” down the left hand side. Clicking “Next” again will produce a message in regards to isolating network interfaces through different subnets, click on yes and after the warning appears, click “Yes” again, after that it should only take around 30 seconds or so to come back with a big green tick, after it does, click on the “Finish” button. Click “Next” and put a check beside the BTRFS volume you want to use, after clicking “Next”, you will need to select the secondary LAN connection. On the first launch, you will be presented with a wizard which will be telling the package where we want to store the Virtual Machines we create.

Ubuntu virtual server