Post #3261334

Sort of. The minimal install image provides a (lightweight command-line) Linux environment, and that’s what you would typically expect to boot into to install. If you have another piece of live media that you prefer, you can use it for the install instead (I’ve used Raspbian and its successor distros as hosts to install Gentoo on Pis from time to time), but there can be occasional gotchas that come from things like different handling of the resolv.conf file on other distros. Just download the file marked “Minimal Installation CD” from here (assuming you’re installing to an x86_64 system) and mount it as a CD according to the VM’s documentation, then boot the VM.