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After clicking finish move on to the next step. If you choose “Fixed size disk” it will take up the entire size specified but the performance of your Virtual Machine will be better. Choose a size suited for your guest OS and select the “Dynamically expanding disk” if you want to save disk creation time and file size. vdi extension which will contain all files stored inside that virtual machine. You need to create a Virtual Hard disk for your Virtual Machine, this is just a file with a. Select the amount of RAM to be allocated to the Virtual Machine

Select the RAM size to be allocated to your guest OS, choose this wisely it should be equal to or more than the minimum system requirement of your guest OS at the same time if it goes more than 50% of your physical machine’s RAM it’ll slow down your host OS. Select the OS you are going to use inside your Virtual Machine Select "New" from the toolbar to create a new Virtual MachineĮnter any name for your Virtual Machine and select the Operating System you’re going to use as your GUEST OS. Step1: Create a Virtual Machineįirst job is to create a virtual machine, to do so open VirtualBox and click “New” from the toolbar. “Guest” OS refers to the operating system which is to be installed inside a virtual machine whereas “host” OS is the operating system installed on the physical machine. After installing VirtualBox follow the steps below. From then on installation of OS will be the same as doing the same on a physical machine. This is my first article on VirtualBox and I’ll describe the steps involved in creating a Virtual Machine, mounting the ISO file of your Operating System, booting from it and starting the installation. A tutorial on how to install an Operating System in VirtualBox.