Virtualbox - Creating a virtual machine

by: Michael N. Manasan - Onshore and Offshore IT Trainer Extraordinaire

Virtualbox  is a virtual machine software that you can download for free from virtualbox.org, it's created and maintained by Sun Microsystems. The good thing with virtualbox is you can create virtual machines running different platforms e.g. Linux, Solaris, BSD, GNU Hurd and Windows ... you can download virtualbox from this link: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.

The installation of Virtualbox is pretty simple and straightforward, once you've installed Virtualbox comes the fun part - creating virtual machines, and here's how it goes:




and there you go, you should now start with the installation of whichever Windows OS you choose to install, in this case it's Windows Server 2008...Stay tuned as we tackle other virtual machine software ...  



I conduct workshops and training for any of the following technologies:
  • Virtual machines - Virtualbox, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, VMWare Workstation, VMWare Server, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer
  • Windows Server 2003/2008 - installation, configuration, administration including AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS 7
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Sharepoint 2010- installation, configuration, administration, development
  • Microsoft .Net - ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#.Net
  • System Center - SCCM, SCVMM, SCOM, SCDPM
  • EC-Council - CEH, ECSA, CFI
  • ITIL v3

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