Once the installation is complete start the VirtualBox from the desktop or Start Menu and you will see home screen will appear as shown below. You don’t need to change anything during installation so just click Next every time it asks for and finish the installation. Once the downloading is complete run the installation file and follow the steps as the installer guides you through installation process.
As I am going to install VB on Windows I will select Windows. Software reviewers like me can also use this to try and test software’s on different platforms under one single window.įirst of all head over to downloads page on VirtualBox’s official website and download the installation package depending on your operating system.It can also be a very useful tool for application developers who can test their application on different platforms before releasing it for general public.VirtualBox can be very useful for people like me who always like to try and mess with different application software’s and operating systems.
We will find how to do that in later part of the article. But it is the misconception because setting up virtual machines is an easy task and it won’t affect your computer system if you set it up correctly. I know many of us have heard of VirtualBox but always been shy of trying or using it just because we think it is a messy task to setup a Virtual Machine and it might harm our whole computer system. Everything depends on amount of hardware resource allocated to virtual machine. Running any application software or video game on virtual machines is sometimes not as smooth as running them on an OS installed on full hardware. This file works as a real hard drive for the guest OS. Virtual hard drive is nothing but a big size file stored on the computer hard drive. What VirtualBox actually does is that it creates virtual hard drive and installs guest OS on it. Basically VB allows user to run guest operating system on another host operating system virtually without need for partitioning of hard drive or running another OS on dual boot which involves risk of crashing the host system. VirtualBox (VB) is a cross-platform hypervisor or virtualization software developed by Oracle Corporation.