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When I try to install Ubuntu guest OS along side another guest OS... inside virtualbox on a Mac...it wants to erase the Virtual drive.
I want to create it alongside another guest without blowing the other away. Not sure how to accomplish this during the Ubuntu install process.
Thanks for your help.

Each guest OS has its own (unshared) virtual drive, which is just a VDI file on your host. Other VMs will not be affected when you create a new one.

As mpack said you can just create a new VM for Ubuntu. If for some reason you want to create a dual boot VM/.vdi, it can be done and the Ubuntu installer will ask if you want it to install itself along side the existing OS. If you want to do that I would make a backup of the original .vdi first in case something goes wrong. I have done it twice just to see if it can be done. I had no good reason to do it however.

Thanks...that worked.