Virtual Machine

OK, so yesterday I mentioned that I was going to start using a virtual machine to use with other operating systems so I can get familiar with them. Well I have just finished downloading and installing Virtual Box on my computer. It was very straightforward, I just went to their web site (there's a link in the useful links page) and downloaded the one relevant to the OS I have as my 'Host'. The host is the OS that you have running on you machine, the ones that the Virtual Machine will run are called guests.

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I haven't started putting the OS on Virtual Box, but I have set up the configuration as you will probably see from my screen shot. This is also straightforward, it asks you how much RAM you want to allocate (it should really meet the minimum requirements of the guest OS as well as leaving your host OS enough to operate as well) I will be posting more on how it works and how I got on later. 


See you soon.