What is VirtualBox and what are its advantages?

In an earlier tutorial, I showed you how to install VMWare on Ubuntu, but in this one, we’ll be using Oracle VirtualBox to create virtual machines and installing Windows 10 on them.

If, like me, you’re an infrequent user of Windows and don’t want to trouble yourself with dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 10, I suggest installing Windows 10 inside Linux by creating a virtual machine. It works well, except you have to switch between the operating systems by restarting them. One way to use the two systems together is to dual boot Windows and Linux. Stephen Glasskeysįinally, click the green start arrow to start the VM, and begin the installation.I regularly encourage people to use Linux, and when I give them reasons to switch, I always mention that they can use Windows and Linux together if they’re ‘scared of Linux’. Stephen GlasskeysĪfter the drive has been created, add the Windows 10 ISO file to the Storage Tree, this is done so the ISO file will be treated as an optical drive by the VM. Select VirtualBox Disk Image as hard disk type, dynamically allocated, with a minimum size of 32GB. One VirtualBox setting that is often overlooked is found under the System, Acceleration tab: Make sure both Hardware Virtualization boxes are ticked. But in most instances, 1024 MB is sufficient to install Windows 10 in a VM. Stephen Glasskeysįor Memory size, try to allocate as much as possible. To start, click the New toolbar button, ensuring that Microsoft Windows and Windows 10 are selected as Type and Version. To illustrate, VirtualBox listed my Slackware Linux and Andy the Android emulator VMs in its VM pane, both were created using a previous version.

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