How to install "Minimal Ubuntu" onto virtual machine

This week Canonical released optimised variant of Ubuntu server distribution called Minimal Ubuntu. But there are no .iso files in provided images there.

Is it possibile to install this distribution on classic virtual machine like Virtual Box of VmWare workstation?

Solution 1:

Maybe late, but I found your question today. I published a gist recently that hopefully solves your problem.

Abstract:

"The mini.iso for the Ubuntu distribution is legacy since version 20.04LTS (Focal Fossa). This is a bad news for those (like me) that formerly used this distribution to produce lightweight virtual machines for development, teaching, testing, etc. A distribution of the mini.iso for Ubuntu 20.04 is indeed still available here, but there is no guarantee that its availability will continue after Focal Fossa. So I decided to find a way to do without the mini.iso, and I wrote this script that takes to the ''tasksel'' step starting from a cloud image in the ubuntu repository. Surprise, it is faster than the procedure based on the mini.iso."

Link: https://gist.github.com/AugustoCiuffoletti/e0af693878e8fa9ab5b6e8d761eb9eec