How to Install Oracle VM Virtualbox in Windows.

Welcome my dear readers, today am going to be writing on how to install Oracle VM VirtualBox in windows (10, 10pro, 8.1, 8, 7 etc). The reason to install Virtualbox in Windows is so that any Operating system you want to use can run as a guest OS within the virtual machine simply meaning you can run two or more OS without dualbooting.

Oracle VM Virtualbox (by Sun) has some advantages and disadvantages. Virtualbox is available for all operating system platforms, and therefore a virtual machine created in one operating system (Windows, Apple, Linux) can be used in another. Furthermore, it is possible to convert virtual machines created in Virtualbox to VMWare and vice versa.

Now let start the installation process,

 1. Download a copy of the Virtualbox (binary) installer for your (Windows) operating system here.

2. Install the program, following the prompts and make sure the program is fully installed, it just like installing any other program no big deal there.

 3. Start Oracle VM Virtualbox Start menu -> Programs -> Sun Virtualbox -> Virtualbox (Optional: Of course, if you would like Virtualbox to start every time you run Windows, you can copy the Virtualbox shortcut into the Start menu -> Programs -> Startup folder.)

Now how to create a virtual machine,

 1. Create a new virtual machine: Virtualbox -> New -> Next -> Name: UbuntuVirtual1 (name of our virtual machine)
Operating System: Linux
Version: Ubuntu ->

 Next -> Memory: Base memory size: 1024 Mb

 Note: Use the amount of RAM for the virtual machine that you can afford. Linux requires less memory to run than does Windows, but the amount of RAM that you dedicate to the virtual machine in this step will not be available to the Windows host. On my laptop, I have 8 Gb RAM, so I dedicate 2048 Mb (2 Gb) to the virtual machine in this step and leave 6 Gb for Windows. You should always leave at least 1 Gb RAM for Windows (or it will run painfully slowly). Linux is able to run with only 512 Mb in server mode or 1 Gb in desktop mode (perhaps even less).

 -> Next -> Virtual Hard Disk -> Boot Hard Disk (Primary Master): (ticked) Create new hard disk: (ticked)

 -> Next -> Next -> Hard disk storage type: Dynamically expanding storage: (ticked)

-> Next -> Virtual Disk Location and Size: Location: UbuntuVirtual1

Size: 8.00 GB

Note: Use whatever size you can afford in Windows. This will take space from your hard drive (so make sure it is available to begin with). A Linux server can easily run in 8 GB, but if you plan to run a GUI desktop in addition (the Ubuntu desktop or Kubuntu desktop, for example), you should consider making this between 10 -20 GB. However, because you have chosen the dynamically expanding storage in the preceding step, the virtual machine will automatically expand storage later if you guess wrong here.

 -> And that all. Now you will have a new virtual machine. You can create multiple virtual machines, in this way. If you desire, you can run each new virtual machine simultaneously (if you have enough RAM and hard drive resources).

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