Internet is not working on VM - Black Screen - Ubuntu 13.04/16.04 Guest and Windows 10 Host

Question

I am a Windows user and I followed these steps to install Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit on my Windows 10 64-bit:

Install Oracle Virtual Box 5.1.2
Download Ubuntu 13.04 32 bit ISO Image File
Create New Machine:
- 1024 MB RAM
- Create Virtual Hard Disk:
  - VDI
  - Fixed
  - 8 GB

Then I Start the machine, and it asks me for the location of the .iso file. I submit and it starts the setup. After some time, it finished and asks for restart.

Problem:

After it asks me for the login credentials, it pops several errors about needed updates but internet is not working. If I ignore(which I have no choice), I get full black screen:

Attempts:

Internet isn't working in Ubuntu 14.04 as VirtualBox Guest OS my settings match the answer's suggested settings.

Ubuntu installed on Vmware cannot get access to internet suggests to "Configuring Bridged Networking Options on a Windows Host" and How to set up and manage a Network Bridge connection on Windows 10 says that I need to "o set a static IP address to your computer manually."

Question:

Do I really need to go that far?

I am asking this because I did this before on Windows 7 for a school project, and I installed Ubuntu and it worked just fine. Also there was internet (Wi-Fi) on the guest too.

Note:

Guest Additions were installed successfully.

Edit:

If I create a new Vm, and choose newer versions of Ubuntu, I get this error right away:

13.04 is really outdated and no longer supported for over 2.5 years now. Please install a supported version like 14.04 or 16.04. — Byte Commander, Aug 11 '16 at 17:53
@FirstStep - Yes. Get the ISO here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04.1/ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso — You'reAGitForNotUsingGit, Aug 11 '16 at 17:56
The official homepage of Ubuntu is http://www.ubuntu.com and the download section for desktop OS is http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop - You'll always find the latest release there. — Byte Commander, Aug 11 '16 at 17:58
Awesome. I will go and try that. Thank you @Byte and Android. — Kyle Khalaf, Aug 11 '16 at 17:58
@ByteCommander I am getting an error when loading the .iso file. I will try and download from another source but do you have any idea? — Kyle Khalaf, Aug 11 '16 at 18:11
@AndroidDev Could you also please take a look at the error? Maybe you know. Thanks in advance — Kyle Khalaf, Aug 11 '16 at 18:11
That does not look like a problem with the iso to me. Delete the VM and create it again, maybe that helps. But I do not use Virtualbox on Windows myself, so I'm not sure what exactly it means. — Byte Commander, Aug 11 '16 at 18:18
@AndroidDev I chose 4GB RAM, got the error, if I use 2Gb Ram, It launches but I get another error saying: "The kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU." — Kyle Khalaf, Aug 11 '16 at 18:28
@FirstStep Can you hop into chat for a second? https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201/ask-ubuntu-general-room — You'reAGitForNotUsingGit, Aug 11 '16 at 18:30

You'reAGitForNotUsingGit · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-11T19:46:56.570

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Well, after a long discussion in chat, we got everything resolved :)

There were multiple issues at play:

Making sure the OP used a supported LTS release (He was originally using an EOL standard release)
Making sure the OP's CPU supported VT-X
Making sure that VT-X was enabled in the BIOS
Making sure that Hyper-V was disabled, as Hyper-V and VBox cannot coexist
Making sure that the VM was set to "Ubuntu 64-bit" instead of "Ubuntu 32-bit"
Making sure the OP knew how to spell Ubuntu :P

In the end, everything was resolved and the VM worked fine.

edited Aug 11 '16 at 19:46

answered Aug 11 '16 at 19:41

You'reAGitForNotUsingGit

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And I edited my OP to reflect the correct spelling of Ubuntu my new best friend! :D Thanks again Android Dev! :) – Kyle Khalaf Aug 11 '16 at 19:46
Got the same issue with a 16.04 host on Win10 just updated to VB 5.1.20.
Initially the guest worked but was unable to go online, I changed the Adapter 1 settings to Network Bridge Adapter (was NAT) and reset the MAC for good measure. It worked fine.

Just to test I reset the network adapter back to NAT and then I got the same black screen issue, setting it back to Bridged it works perfectly.
– runlevel0 Apr 25 '17 at 12:42

Internet is not working on VM - Black Screen - Ubuntu 13.04/16.04 Guest and Windows 10 Host

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