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Create VM using Oracle VM Virtualbox

In this post, lets see how to create VM using Oracle VM Virtualbox

  • Open Oracle VM Virtualbox & Click on New button
  • Enter following fields to identify your virtual machine & click on next button
    • Name
    • Machine Folder (Select the drive that has maximum free space)
    • Type - Linux/Windows/Solaris
    • Version - Ubuntu (32-bit)/Ubuntu (64-bit)/etc
  • Select Memory Size (RAM) size and click on Next button
  • Add Virtual hard disk, we get three options
    • Do not add a virtual hard disk - no hard disk will be added to VM, we can add it at later point.
    • Create a virtual hard disk now - This will provide option to create hard disk
    • Use an existing hard disk file - This will help to existing hard disk file that is created earlier.
  • Now we can select "Create a virtual hard disk now" option. There are three hard disk file type to select
    • VDI (Virtualbox Disk Image) - Default hard disk file type for Oracle Virtualbox
    • VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) - Default hard disk file type for Windows hypervisor
    • VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) - Default hard disk file type for Vmware hypervisor
  • Select "Storage on physical hard disk" based on following option
    • Dynamically allocated - file will start growing as and when it is used but will not reduce when space is freed.
    • Fixed size - complete size will be occupied according to the size mentioned.
  • Mention hard disk file location and size. Click on Create


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