You can download a VDI, load it in VirtualBox (or another virtual machine tool), and load the pre-built operating system environment. Download Windows version from here as I will be using Windows 10 to install VirtualBox.A virtual disk image (VDI) is the image of a VirtualBox virtual hard disk. VirtualBox can be installed in Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu, centOS etc., MacOS and Windows. You can download VirtualBox from the official Oracle VirtualBox website. Please visit the official page to find out the list of supported Operating Systems that can be Installed in VirtualBox. Please refer to my post to know more about it.

On a related note, Microsoft provides its own version of Hypervisor or Virtualization application called Hyper-V.

Please refer to my post which will show you how to enable Virtualization technology in Windows.

To find out if you computer supports Virtualization technology please refer to my post here.

Please refer to some of my post to know more about Virtualization. But with VirtualBox, to use CPU based Virtualization technology, Virtualization technology has to be enabled through BIOS for Intel based processors. When the CPU has support to Virtualization Technology, the virtualization is said to be hardware-based or hardware-assisted.īoth VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox take advantage of Virtualization technology to improve performance. With them, controlling software (called VMM, Virtual Machine Monitor) can be simpler, thus improving performance compared to software-based solutions.

The advantage is that, CPUs with Virtualization Technology have new instructions to control virtualization. These days most of the processors, both from Intel and AMD comes with CPU based Virtualization technology. You can also view my video on YouTube on this topic. VirtualBox supports both 32 bit and 64 bit version of the various operating systems currently available.

Oracle VirtualBox is a virtualization software that allows you to run multiple Operating system on your host operating system without having the need to dual boot your computer. In this blog post, I will show you how to install Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.6 on Windows 10 along with Extension Pack.

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