R How to create a V irtualbox Virtual Machine Calogero Sanfilippo <
[email protected]> Emanuele Cipolla
April 20, 2008
R and click on new Figure 1: Open V irtualbox
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Figure 2: Choose the name of your new virtual machine and select the appropriated OS type. The name of a new VM must be like this: OSnameversion number-architecture-buildname (for example, debian-4.0-x86-xfce)
Figure 3: Select the amount of RAM to be allocated to the VM 2
Figure 4: Create a new virtual hard disk image to be used as the boot hard disk of the virtual machine
Figure 5: You can create, for example, an 8 GB virtual disk, which name must be the name of the VM. 3
Figure 6: Click Finish to enjoy your new VM!!
Figure 7: Click on Settings to choose your virtual CD/DVD-ROM
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Figure 8: You can mount the host CD/DVD Drive or an ISO image file
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