Open the VirtualBox and on the VirtualBox Manager click New. Step 2: Create a VirtualBox Guest Virtual MachineĪssuming you've downloaded a Debian 11 iso and have VirtualBox installed. In this phase, the actual installation of Debian 11 will start. To install the Apache Web server execute the following command: sudo apt install apache2. sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade. Debian supports both 64 bit and 32 bit computers. Before installing the software, we must update the system packages to the latest available versions. You can either download the minimal CD (called netinst) which is a smaller size iso, fetch remaining packages over the internet, or full DVD/CD image with all the packages. Minimum 10B free disk space (Recommeded 20GB)įirst, download Debian 11 ISO image from the official website.Let's install Debian 11 on VirtualBox with Gnome Desktop Environment. VirtualBox is open-source cross-platform virtualization software that allows running multiple guest operating systems.ĭebian 11 comes with multiple Desktop environments such as Gnome, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, Mate, Xfce, and Cinnamon. In this tutorial, we learn how to install Debian 11 on VirtualBox.

Debian 11 installation guide