Setting Up a Virtual Machine: Local Virtualization

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Hello. My name is Jerry Smith. In these lessons, you will learn how to work with local virtualization. Oracle's VirtualBox is a Type two hypervisor and is free of charge for personal use. It is currently on version 7 and can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux. From VirtualBox Port. Now let's take a tour of the application. To begin with, let's check out the options from this menu on the primary landing page. We're currently on the Welcome section. Here we have additional preferences options to import or export a virtual appliance. The New button and Add button. The New button will allow you to create a new virtual machine, while the Add button lets us add a virtual machine that was already created elsewhere. Now let's choose extensions. As you can see, we don't currently have any installed in Oracle, only has one available. It adds additional features such as virtual box, remote desktop host webcam pass through and disk encryption and more. You can reference the documentation for more information on that. Next up is Media. Here you can add or manage existing virtual hard disks. Let's click on Optical disks. On this tab you can add or manage ISO files. An ISO file or ISO image operates as a virtual disk that's used to install applications and operating systems. Think of it as a virtual DVD. Next up, we have network to use VirtualBox. You don't have to manipulate any of these settings. However, if you'd like to change any of the default information, you'd do it here. The cloud menu would be used if you were to integrate your VirtualBox install with your Oracle Cloud instance. And finally, we have Activities. Here you can see the hardware performance statistics of your host as well as your VMs. Let's go back to the Welcome page. Let's take a look at the options when creating a new virtual machine. Click the blue New button and choose that expert mode button down at the bottom. This gives us more control over the process. Here you see options to name the Virtual Machine where you want it located and what ISO file to use. You can also select what operating system and version you're going to install. Just click on that blue hardware button. This section lets us configure how much RAM to give the virtual machine as well as how many CPU's we want to give it. You can always change this later, but the virtual machine has to be powered off now, Select hard disk. Here you set where the virtual hard disk will be located. By default it will reside in the folder of the VM. You can set the size desired and whether you want to allocate all of the space at once or not. You can also customize the hard disk type. It is recommended to use the virtual box default unless you have instructions otherwise. You can consult the documentation in VirtualBox for more information on that. Stay tuned for the next lesson where we are going to install Windows ten in Oracle VirtualBox. Thanks for watching.