Here is some notes about using Ubuntu guest on Mac host in VirtualBox.
Notes about Ubuntu Guest on Mac Host in VirtualBox
Mount 2nd Disk When Starting Up
This is a note about how to mount the 2nd hard disk when Ubuntu starting up. From here.
Setup Octopress Environment
This is a note how to setup the Octopress environment on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04.
Create Menu Entry for IntelliJ IDEA
My environment is Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. The default installation package of IntelliJ IDEA for Linux is in “tar.gz” format. Do the following steps to create the menu entry after extracting the package file.
IPFS
From here.
Translate Shell
Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate and Apertium. It gives you easy access to one of these translation engines in your terminal.
Git Branch Operations
From here.
Make Ubuntu 18.04 Look More Like Mac
The original solution was verified on Ubuntu 17.10. However it’s also verified on Ubuntu 18.04 after the 18.04 version is released.
Hope the following things work on the next LTS version “18.04”(Confirmed on 2018-05-14: all the instructions work on Ubuntu 18.04).
Setup Chinese Input Method in Ubuntu 18.04
The original solution was verified on Ubuntu 17.10. However it’s also verified on Ubuntu 18.04 after the 18.04 version is released.
Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is just released. A big change in this release is that it ditches Unity for Gnome. Most likely this will be part of the next LTS version “18.04”(Confirmed on 2018-05-14, the solution below also works on Ubuntu 18.04).