VirtualBox running Ubuntu 20 Notes

5 Oct 2021

Sometimes trying to boot into Ubuntu 20 from VirtualBox just results in a black screen with blinking cursor. The last known version of VirtualBox to work was a "test" version, VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.27_146688_test_el7-1.x86_64.rpm but now it fails.

I then installed VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.27_147252_test_el7-1.x86_64.rpm and the VM started up.

For all notes below, the new Ubuntu 20 VM has been installed and tested. Also migrated Unifi controller to it.

Upgrade 18.04 to 20.04

Fix /swapfile

Change hostname

Gmail SMTP on Ubuntu 20

Disable firewalld on Ubuntu: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disable-firewall-command/