By default VirtualBox will offer you the minimum required to run the virtual machine. You have to still have enough memory left for your host operating system to run. The next screen requires you to select the amount of memory you want to dedicate to your Virtual Machine. You can have as many instances of a single OS as you want so long as you have the room for it. And even though the currently installed VM is Windows XP, we can still install another XP instance. The only difference being that in my example there is already a virtual machine installed. Outside of that - everything should work exactly as expected.īefore you actually read this article make sure you have read through the first article and have VirtualBox installed.Once installed you can fire up VirtualBox and you will see a window similar to that in Figure 1. Now I am using the open source version of VirtualBox so no USB support is included. Believe it or not, Windows XP will work right out of the box. In fact, as you will witness in the sample installation we will do, no hardware drivers are necessary. You will be surprised at not only how simple the installation is, but how much better hardware detection is. In this article I am going to show you how to actually install an operating system with this tool. In my last article ( Installing and configuring VirtualBox for virtual OSes)Â I walked you through the installation of the VirtualBox virtual machine tool.
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