Virtual Machines!!

All of you hardcore users will know what a Virtual Machine is, if you don't know, it is a program that can let you run operating systems inside your operating system virtually (hardware emulation). The main Virtual Machine software is Vmware, and vmware player, etc. But today we are going to focus on VirtualBox, my favorite Virtual Machine software, and it is probably also the easiest to use!

In this post, I will show you where to get VirtualBox, and I will do a step-by-step tutorial using Vista. (In a linux envirornment).

1st of all, to download VirtualBox, go here.
Ubuntu users can download from there, and also do "sudo apt-get install VirtualBox"
Now load VBox. You should get this -

Now, click the button that says "New" and you should get this (click to enlarge) -

Just hit next and select the name of your vm (can be anything) and select your operating system you want to emulate. Then hit next and select the amnt of RAM you want to dedicate to a VM. This is your descision, it all depends how much RAM you have and how much you can sacrifice. Of course, for Vista, we do not recommend anything less than 1gb, but for some ppl that is ALL of their RAM!! After that click "New" on the hard disk page, I strongly recommend Dynamically Expanding Image, and from then on it should be easy, and now your screen should look like this-

But we are STILL not done yet. Click on CD/DVDROM, and choose your cd/dvd drive (or an iso file). You can also setup audio and other things (like networking, but should be automatic).
That's all for now, and we will wrap it up in another post!!!