Hello everyone. In this lecture, we are going to
create a virtual machine on our VirtualBox, the
VirtualBox application that we have downloaded in
the previous lecture, and now I'm going to show
you how you could create a virtual machine. So I'm
going to start up the VirtualBox. This is what I
have it open already. And the version that I'm
using for the VirtualBox is when you go to Help
and click on About VirtualBox, this,
VirtualBox is 6.0. If you're using a little
later version, or updated version, that is
perfectly fine, every version would just work
fine. Now, as an example, as a test, we are going
to create a new virtual machine. So I want you to
go ahead and click on a New. And here I want you
to type for example, MyLinuxVM.
So now as you type this, it's going to tell you where it's going
to save the information of the Linux machine, it
picked up this location by default. Next one, it
says the Type. The Type is Linux, of course,
because I have typed the name, it automatically
picked it up that it's, it's assuming this a Linux
machine and the Version is Linux 2.6/3.x/4.x, or
whichever version and it says a 64 bit. Now, if
your computer right now, or your virtual machine
setting is showing 32 bit which is this, and you do
have a 64 bit operating system, then you what you
need to do is you need to enable virtualization
technology in your BIOS setting. So again, if it
is showing 32 bit, then first thing you need to
confirm is that your computer, that where you're
running this VirtualBox actually is 64. So I
could confirm by going into My Computer, I could
go into My Computer right here, right click on it,
go to Properties.
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And in my computer Properties,
you're going to see that I have a system type a 64
bit operating system. So if this is your system
type is showing right now 64 bit operating system,
and you're still seeing this version showing up as
32 bit, then it means that you have to go into
your computer BIOS setting to enable
virtualization and how to do that? I have included
an article in this lecture in the description that
will make make you go through how you could enable
that. Anyway, so once you have it enabled, you got to
reboot your machine, and it will show up as 64
bit. Now the next thing is you need to define the
Memory. Memory is the memory of your virtual
machine. It's just like if you are going to a
store right, let's say if you're going to Best Buy,
or any computer store, and you pick up the laptop
and or computers and you ask how much memory it
has. This is exact same way that you are doing but
the difference is that now you are the
manufacturer, you are the one who is putting in
the memory inside of your computer.
By default, I'm going to leave it as 1024 MB,
which is one gig. The next part is
Hard disk, Create a virtual hard disk now, leave
that as default, and click on Create. Then it says
the File size here is eight gig by default,
it's picking it up, I want you to pick 10 Gig, just
to make sure we have enough space when we are
going through all the exercises of our training.
Alright, so then Hard disk file type is VDI
(VirtualBox Disk Image), which is by default is the
right file types, so we'll leave that as is. Storage
on physical hard disk, Dynamically allocated, leave
that as default as well. If you need to know more
about it, what's the difference between each one
of them, I'm sure you could go and click on Guided
Mode, or you could also look it up online on the
difference of each of these hard disk types. Go
ahead and click Create.
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And now you're going to see right here it's going
to show you my Linux VM and its configuration or
specification of that VM. The General information
showing up here, the System information is up here
the Dispplay, Storage, Audio, Network, USB, Shared
Folders, all that it is just like as if you have an
actual machine. So anyway, you have created your
virtual machine, this is the lecture I
wanted to go through, how you could create a
virtual machine. Now, when I am going to go through
the next lecture where we will do the actual
CentOS or Linux installation, then I will ask you
to create the virtual machine again. So for this
lab purposes, just just go ahead, click on the
machine, then right click and click on Remove and
then just click on Delete all files. Beautiful.
Alright, so that was just an exercise. Let's move on.
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