Installing a VM (Virtual machine) with VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. In this post, we will use it in a Ubuntu (maverick) platform (host OS) and we will install Debian as a guest virtual OS in a following post. At first, you must to download it from:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

• Step 1. As an user with the necessary privileges to install packages (root or sudo user), run:

  sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-4.0_4.0.4-70112~Ubuntu~maverick_i386.deb

  VirtualBox will be installed in the Applications -> System Tools -> Oracle VM VirtualBox.

• Step 2. Now, you need to run the Oracle VM VirtualBox and to create a new virtual machine (VM) doing click in the New button or Ctrl-N
  
• Step 3. Click in the Next button:
  
• Step 4. To choice a VM name and OS type. We choice: Name: debian_test, Operating System: Linux, Version: Debian.
  
• Step 5. To select the amount of RAM. We choice 400 MB.
  
• Step 6. Virtual Hard Disk. Here we will use a new virtual hard disk with the recommended size, 8GB.
  
• Step 7. After it, VirtualBox show you a Wizard to create a new disk virtual. Click Next and select the Hard Disk Store Type. By default the storage type is a dynamically expanding storage.
  
• Step 8. The following step is to select the location where we want to save our virtual disk and select the size of it.
  
• Step 9. At the end, the wizard show you the summary. Now, we can see in the VirtualBox Manager out VM.
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