Virtualbox - create new Virtual Machine

 Creating Virtual Machine on Virtualbox is very easy. First what you need of course is to have Virtualbox installed, here is link for Downloading it for your system

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

After installing and running Virtualbox, you will see something like this

With button New (1) you will open windows for creatingnew VM (VM means Virtual Machine).

Creating new VM windows looks something like this, in first line you can add name to VM

Here you can choose folder for your VM, there will be stored its virtual hard drive and necessary files

Then you can choose type of OS what you want to install on your VM

Next you can choose version of OS

Click next. Now you will see Memory windows, where you need to add memory for VM.

Click next. Now you need to create new Hard Disk for VM. Here you have choose to create new, add existing or with no Hard Disk, in our case you need check “Create a virtual hard disk now”

Click create. Choose “VDI (Virtual Disk Image)” and click next.

Here you can choose how your VM will allocate size on disk, Dynamically or Fixed (full VM disk size at a time), it’s up to you.

In this windows you can choose location of VMs Hard disk file and its size. In future if it will necessary, you can expand Hard disk size.

When you click Create, you will see windows like this

Now you can run you VM with “Start” button, you will see windows like this. Start-up disk is empty, because you don’t choose it from VM settings, but you can do it from this window.

 

Here you can choose OS image from your PC, that you want to install.

After clicking Choose, you will see windows like this, here need to click Start and your VM will begin work.

That’s it, now you can use your newly created VM, install OS with your choose, work with it, test it and make fun.

Thank you.