Creating Virtual Machine(VM)

In this post we are going to see "How to Create VM". I hope you are finished installing Virtual Box. It's time to create a virtual machine so that you can start playing with another operating system.Before Virtualbox I had to boot the OS again and  I had to switch to another OS. Dual Boot was the option in the beginning where it needs to shutdown my current OS. But with this Virtualization problem got solved.Now a days everyone is looking for the Virtualization.

• Once the installation of VirtualBox is done.The very first screen is going to looks like below screen.

• It's always to save the VBox files in another drive.So I'm changing the default location of Vbox files.Click on File --> Preferences

•  In Default Machine folder click on Others. It is going to ask you where to save the file.Here you can give the (D:\,E:\ drives). Here In my case I've created new folder.

                           

• You can see the same in the following screenshot.

• Click on New to create VM. It's going to pop you a window asking for 
  Name: The Machine name
  Type :  OS type (ex: windows/linux/solaris)
  Version: 32/64bit. 

                          

• Specify the RAM you want to allocate the VM machine.It will warn you if you give more than 65% of you RAM.Specify the RAM and Click Next

•  For a VM we need to create the hard drive too. Click on Create

• Click on Next

•  Click Next

• Mention the Hard drive size . Here we are logically assigning the space.So even if you don't have 100gb of space still you can able to give.Click on Create

•  We have finished creating the virtual machine.

• Now we can able to put the CD/DVD iso and we can start installing the OS. Settings -->Storage-->+ symbol-->Choose disk

•  Give the input in the ISO format or you can insert the CD/DVD drive.

•  You can able to see the inserted iso image under the controller IDE. Click OK

•  click on Start  to start the Virtual Machine.

The same approach is used to install any operating system .In the above example I used linux. This is how we can able to create the Virtual Machine after that we can start installing the Operating system by giving the iso image as input.