A VM without a hard drive is pretty useless, so go ahead and choose Create a virtual hard disk now, unless you already have one created.Ĭlick Create and the next screen will give you three options for the hard disk file type. Next, you have the option of adding a virtual hard disk to the virtual machine or not. It’ll give you a recommended amount, but you can always manually adjust this by using the slider. Next, choose the amount of memory you would like to assign to your virtual machine. If VirtualBox is showing you only 32-bit options and no 64-bit options, check out this post for the remedy. Ideally, you should install the 64-bit versions of operating systems.
The program only gave me options for 32-bit because I used older hardware. In my case, I chose Linux for Type and then chose Ubuntu. You can install a lot of different operating systems using this tool, but we are just working with Ubuntu Linux here. On the following screen, we have to choose the operating system. The first time you should use the guided wizard. If you see that your graphics may become blurry or jerky, you can disable 3D transparency effects by right-clicking on the desktop, then select Personlize -> Appearance –> Disable transparency effects.Note that once you are familiar with the process of setting up a virtual machine in VirtualBox, you can click on the Expert Mode button to get through all the settings much faster. To accomplish this, you can select the Display-icon at the bottom-right of the VirtualBox ( ) -> Virtual Screen 1 –> Resize to 1440×900. It might be handy to increase the resolution if the VirtualBox. For the shared folder, we recommend usning your Downloads folder in Linux for your VirtualBox Downloads. Now run the setup: just double-click the VBoxWindowsAdditions executable file.Īfter the installation, you should be able to set a shared folder, set shared clipboard to bi-directional and set the bi-directional drag-and-drop function. Then you can find the VirtualBox Guest Additions virtual CD drive under the file explorer -> This PC. On the top bar of your virtual machine, click on Devices -> Insert guest additions CD image.
Installing the Guest additions add-on is pretty straight-forward, luckily. To accomplish this, we will have to install the guest additions software of Oracle. Additional drivers for better performance and the ability to set the screen resolution.Bi-directional drag-and-drop, to easily drag-and-drop your files from and into the VirtualBox.Bi-directional clipboard, to easily copy and paste from and to the VirtualBox.Shared folder, to easily transfer files from and to the VirtualBox.
Next we want to have some awesome additional features, such as: If you successfully installed Windows 10, the Windows start screen looks like this.
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