Virtual Box – An Introduction || How to install Virtual Box (VM) on Windows easy Steps

1.     Virtual Box – An Introduction

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high-performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

 

When we describe VirtualBox as a "virtualization" product, we refer to "full virtualization", that is, the particular kind of virtualization that allows an unmodified operating system with all of its installed software to run in a special environment, on top of your existing operating system. This environment, called a "virtual machine", is created by the virtualization software by intercepting access to certain hardware components and certain features. The physical computer is then usually called the "host", while the virtual machine is often called a "guest". Most of the guest code runs unmodified, directly on the host computer, and the guest operating system "thinks" it's running on real machine.

Learn more at https://www.virtualbox.org/

                               the ubuntu Image file download:

                                    https://ubuntu.com/desktop

Now we will start Installing Virtual Box in Windows, to install Ubuntu as a virtual machine.

 

 

2.        Installing VirtualBox

You can download VirtualBox version 4.2 from the following link. This version is old one but proved to be more stable as compared to the latest one.

 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_2

After Download complete of latest version VirtualBox 4.3.26, click on downloaded exe.

Step1: Following the Welcome screen will appear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click the “Next” button.

 

Step2:

 

Click Next.

 

Step3: Custom Setup for different features Window is displayed. No need to change anything, just press the “Next” button.

Step 4: The Warning window is displayed. Click Yes.

Step5: “Ready to Install” window is displayed. Press the “Install” button.

 

Step6: Finally after setup, installation will start and following window will be displayed with a status bar.

 

 

Installation continues…

Meanwhile, Windows Security will ask for the confirmation of installing hardware. e.g below.

Press Install.

 

 

 

 

 

Step7: Installation Complete. Press the “Finish” button.

 

 

After installation completed, you can find its icon on the desktop.

Congratulations you have successfully installed Virtual Box and its ready to use Please Comment below if you have any issues or you found this post helpful.

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