Creating a new virtual machine on VirtualBox

Hi guys, In my previous tutorial, I walked you through the installation of the VirtualBox on the Linux Backtrack 5. In this tutorial I want to show you how to create a new virtual machine as a guest OS (Microsft Windows XP SP2) on VirtualBox.


Click the "New" button in "Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager" window (shown in figure 1).

                              Figure 1

You will see the following window (Figure 2):

                                Figure 2

Click Next button. You will see the following screen. You have to configure the OS Type and Name field (shown in figure 3), and then click Next button.

                                Figure 3

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In the next screen (figure 4) requires you to select amount of memory (Base Memory Size) you want to dedicated to your virtual machine. Click Next Button.

                                Figure 5

In figure 5, requires you to create a new virtual hard drive, select Create new hard disk and click Next button.

                                 Figure 6

You can select one from several file types, just select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image). Then click Next button.

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Then select Dynamically allocated (shown in figure 7), click Next button.

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You can select the location of VDI file and resize the hard drive. Click Next button

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Click Create (shown in figure 9), you will see the following screen

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Click Create button, and you will see the next screen (figure 11)

                              Figure 11

Select Storage button and you will see the following screen :

                               Figure 12

You have insert the windows installation (such as ISO file) in Attributes, then you will see the following screen.

                          Figure 13

Click OK, and Click Start button, and then you can start installing Windows XP as a virtual machine (shown in Figure 14).

Congratulations ! :-)