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Virtualbox installation

start by going to VirtualBox press download and select the download for your system
VirtualBox 6.1.14 platform packages

Installing Virtualbox on Windows

VirtualBox Download

Press next choose install location and press next yes and then install press yes on the popup

exe

install

next

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next

Press finish and then the program should launch by itself

Installing VirtualBox on OS X

VirtualBox download

DMG

Open with DiskImageMounter and double click VirtualBox.pkg

pkg

press continue and then install, in the popup type in your password to confirm installation of program. you should then see the installation was successful

continue

install

successful

Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu

Press Ctrl-Alt-T to open terminal and enter the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox

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Virtualbox Tutorial

Tutorial for setup and use of virtualbox school project

To get started head over to VirtualBox and download the latest realese for your operating system. (Windows/OS X/Linux)

When you are done installing VirtualBox for your system you open the program and press new.

Pic of VirtualBox

After you press next you chooce the ammaount of ram, 4000mb will be more than enough.

VB RAM

Press next and then select create a virtual hard disk now.

Virtual hard disk

Select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image)

VDI

Then you press next and select Dynamically Allocated

DA

You can now select the ammount of storage you want to allocate to the virtual machine, since the virtual machine has storage dynamically allocated it will only use the ammount of space you selected when you use it. That means if you select 20GB that is a max limit and the machine itself will use less than 20GB space untill you fill it up.

Storage

After you press create you select settings general advanced and put shared clipboard to bidirectional so that you can copy and paste stuff from your pc to the virtual computer and the other way around.

Settigns

Then go to system and set CPU to 2.

System

Press ok and then start

Start

Press the small folder icon and choose add then select your iso file (Im gonna use Ubuntu for this but it can be any operating system) after you choose your iso file it should look like this:

ISO

Press choose and then start

START

Now you choose Install Ubuntu

Install

Select your language for the keyboard layout

Keyboard

install Install

Press install now and if there is a popup press continue

Select your time zone and press continue

Time Zone

Now you just fill in your name choose the computers name and the name of your user select a password and press continue

User

Now you just wait for the installation to finish and press restart now

restart

Uninstalling VirtualBox OS X

There is a uninstallation tool included in the VirtualBox.dmg found here
You want to right click Virtualbox_Uninstall.tool and press Open

uninstall tool press open

You want to select Open on the popup and then type Yes twice in the terminal window that opened followed by your admin password now you just wait a little while and it should say Process completed

Open
Yes Yes admin pass complete

Installing VirtualBox Beta OS X

start by installing Homebrew if you dont already have it, open the terminal and run the following command

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

When you have Homebrew up and running you use the following 2 commands

brew cask install homebrew/cask-versions/virtualbox-beta
brew cask install homebrew/cask-versions/virtualbox-extension-pack-beta

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