As several people have noted below, when you have created a virtual machine in VirtualBox it is very handy to install what are known as “Guest Additions” in the guest operating system to improve performance (eg to allow use of full-screen mode, and the sharing of a folders with the host operating system). Some Linux distros (such as Linux Mint as shown in the video) do not need Guest Additions installed to run full-screen, and as the video was already long and involved, I chose not to cover Guest Additions in the video. In retrospect, this was a mistake on my behalf. However, in most instances Guest Additions install very easily as follows. Boot up your virtual machine (not in full-screen mode) and in the top VirtualBox menu select “Devices” and then “Insert Guest Additions CD Image”. This mounts a virtual CD in your guest operating system, which should autorun (or ask you if it can autorun). So then just follow through the install process, including the involved reboot of the guest operating system, and Guest Additions will be added to your guest system. If the virtual CD does not autorun, navigate to it and run the appropriate file (eg it is “VBoxWindowsAdditons.exe” in Windows). Enjoy! :)
ExplainingComputers Fabulous video sir..thanks a lot.Please make a video over ubuntu mate &how we can install it on a pen drive&run use or boot from pen drive.. Ur biggest fan from India👌👌
ExplainingComputers please can i contact you to help me setup a virtual machine for me through email using team viewer i dont know how to set up a vm do you know how to set up a vm perhaps you can help me i promise that any information you give me will remain confidential i am not trying to hack you scam or anything bad i simply need help please if you can the please reply please note i am not trying to hack scam or threaten you i just need help legitimately so if your intrested i understand this may sound fishy or may seem a bit wierd or off point but i need help if you know any other videos or maybe site that may help me out please feel free to leave a link to any site i can get help or iso files soni can set up my own virtual machine thx
I think this video explains it very well, personally. A very good introduction to VM'ing. Just follow this process and there is no reason it won't work. I have found if you do the steps as he is doing then it makes it much easier.
Chris, You are amazing, the way you teach is wonderful, everything is laid out so crystal clear and precise, who in this world could not learn loads of useful thing from you once they have seen your video, I for one, know exactly what to do, if only all teachers were as good as you, the world be full of people that could do anything that they put their mind to, once they have got the know how.
100% agree. It's getting harder to find tutorials from people who sound professional. Even if you are an expert, if you are constantly swearing and using street slang, it takes away from the learning for me.
I found out that if you want to access your VM from outside, or from another VM, set the network interface to "Bridged" in the guest. You need that if you want to use the VM as a server, and the default is NAT. Excellent presentation.
I've pondered setting up virtual machines in the past, but never really done anything about it. Now I know what I'm doing, I will delve into it for sure. Thanks for another superb video Chris.
I have installed virtual Box on my Windows 10 Pro laptop. Getting ready to run it on this laptop. Found this video doing a search on UA-cam which helped me get the program ready to run. Thanks Chris for this video helped a lot. Now I can run some Linux distro's without having to install them on my hard drive.
Bonus tip: the virtual machine created by VirtualBox or other virtualization software is simply a set of files. Those files can be copied to another computer and the virtual machine run there as well. (Be sure to shutdown the virtual machine before copying the files.) So, for example, you have Linux Mint in a VirtualBox virtual machine on your Windows computer. You also have a Mac computer wih VirtualBox installed. Copy the files of the Linux Mint virtual machine folder to the Mac in its virtual machine folder. For the specific details of how to do this use Google or UA-cam to find examples. It is also possible to do this with VirtualBox on one computer and VMware Player on another. Although, it gets a little complicated. Again, Google or UA-cam to find specific tutorials.
I've had simply copying 'em elsewhere fail. However, exporting an .OVA worked great. At least for my own... when I tried to import someone else's .OVA, it threw up all over itself. May not quite have the hang of this VM thing yet. :)
Dear Christopher, I just write to you to thank you for your web site and UA-cam videos. It is really instructive and easy to understand. Moreover, watching you help me to improve my english. Thanks to you, I discover so many things I didn’t know ! I realy enjoy and apreciate what you do to develop our knowledge. Philippe, a new french follower.
Important timestamps (for me:) 4:52 Virtual Box preferences 5:16 Change the default Machine Folder to something non-SSD 5:44 Creating a VM 7:04 Starting the VM 8:21 Installing the guest OS 10:14 Installation finished
Important note: it is not advisable to use external storage such as a USB hard drive or flash drive for the virtual machine folder. Performance of a virtual machine is directly a function of disk speed. Flash drives are too slow and can be worn out pretty quickly with the amount of disk writes the virtualization software makes. External USB hard drives, while not prone to wear out like flash drives, do suffer speed issues due to the bottleneck of the USB port. Also, if the USB drive gets accidentally disconnected the virtual machine files may get corrupted.
@@dailleursstraits - the point is that having the virtual machine files on a USB device is a speed bottleneck. There is also the risk of accidental disconnection. An SSD is probably not going to wear out unless it is a small capacity unit. The smaller the capacity the fewer chips it has. Chips are what have the write lifespan so the more chips the longer the life. Look at the specs for the SSD on the manufacturer website. The value you want to look for is TBW, or terabytes written. This is the maximum for the drive. It’s easy to see how TBW is affected by drive capacity by looking at other capacity versions of the same series.
I have known about this for over a decade but never really got the inspiration to try it since I don't really need it. This video has peaked my interest though i still do not have a need for a virtual machine. Great presentation. Appreciated the info presented.
Hi there. Awhile back I posted on here that whenever I tried to set up a VM that ran Linux Mint (19) my initial desktop screen after establishing the VM was all scrambled like static and unusable. Since you actually took the time to offer a reply, I thought I'd post the solution since I figured it out and since this appears to be somewhat common. After many days of frustration, I found the answer right under my nose...in the Linux Mint release notes under "Known Issues!" (I feel silly having missed it) To fix the issue, simply hit the Host key (which is usually the Right Ctrl key on a Windows host, or the left Command key on a Mac host) and F1, then hit Host+F7 to go back, and voila! Fixed! For Mac users, be sure to hit the fn key to activate the function keys when you execute these commands. Thank you for making such great tutorial content. I hope this helps someone.
Thanks for another straightforward video. A tip. After setting up the VM, do not go into settings for that VM before starting it. If you do then the First Start Wizard does not run. You then have no easy way to install an ISO file. I had to 'remove' my VM and recreate it. Then the wizard ran fine.
I'm an old codger, but I have to say your Videos instil enthusiasm and experimental spirit! Full of useful info, clarity, no fluff, and as a big bonus, I find your sense of humour engaging, the british charm comes thru. I'm dead keen to try this out, and look forward to your videos on different OSs. I haven't yet subscribed to any channel, but I can feel myself wavering/cracking. Top notch, best computer channel on the web! Would VM be an alternative to Wine? If VM is not running, I assume the resources are then returned to the main OS.
I'm so, so very grateful to you! I was completely frustrated by not being able to restore a Dell Inspiron 1501 running Windows Vista Business. This video was helpful in finding a solution. Many thanks!!!
I think you should make a video about hypervisors in general, and explain how they work and how they are used for actual work (like sharing a server with many clients for example)
really awesome that you made this video so people that dont know about virtual operating systems, that wanna try linux or such, can feel confident and try it whitout any risk
I installed VitualBox and followed along installing Linux mint and Windows XP. I had a little trouble installing Windows XP but finally got it to boot from the CD-ROM drive. Thanks for the information I have a few iso's I can use. I have a 80GB external HHD with a USB adapter and that is what I save my Downloads to. I used the same folder you did on the drive and it seems to work fine.
this is great, I'm going to use this to keep my fresh built PC safe from scammers , it happened to me once, luckily I realized what was going on before the damage was done, now I can access THEIR desktop like them & delete their files haha , add viruses or create a syskey to lock them out & hopefully save someone else from being scammed, thank you for this video, it was very straight forward & easy to understand
I use Virtual Box a lot for experimenting. Another thing you can do with the network configuration is to create a virtual network to allow two virtual machines to talk to each other as if they are on an isolated LAN network. I have used it, for instance, testing out setting up a Linux distribution as an internet firewall where the virtual Windows 7 machine had to go through the virtual Linux machine to get access to the internet as it was only linked to the virtual LAN network with no access to the physical LAN network. The virtual Linux machine was set up with two LAN ports, one linked to the physical LAN port and the other linked to the virtual LAN port. I have also found running a copy of Open Media Vault on Virtual Box as a good way to turn on and off access to files on my external drives through the internet. I then can just by running a virtual computer on my system have a way I can access files when I am away and want to be able to access them, but easily shut down access to them when not needed.
If you GPU Passthrough your graphic card to Windows in a virtual machine, you can play all Windows games at near native performance 95-98% and also run graphic intensive softwares like Adobe Premiere for example. If you have two graphic cards or if your CPU has iGPU, you can GPU Passthrough. You will need Linux, QEMU instead of VirtualBox and also Virt-Manager which is a GUI front end for QEMU.
You can follow the GPU Passthrough tutorials to set it up. If you have two graphic cards, check they are not in the same IOMMU group, you can't GPU Passthrough if they are in the same IOMMU group. You shouldn't have this problem if have one graphic card and if CPU has iGPU, you can use iGPU for Linux and passthrough GPU to Windows VM. GPU Passthrough will be hard for novice users to setup right now as it is not yet to a stage where anyone can point and click passthrough GPU.
Wanted to start using a VM and your clear and straightforward video has pathed the way for me. Thanks very much for all your efforts in this and all your other videos.
Cool stuff! I'm looking forward to when AMD starts embedding GPUs in Threadripper CPUs that will allow IO-MMU pass-through. VMs with no video lag, now that's awesome!
Intel has had ‘quite alright for Chrome’ embedded GPUs in their chips for years, what’s missing, here? Why isn’t intel Right now, whenever I install a Ubuntu VM on Vbox installing drivers and enabling 3D support is a few extra steps that I always wind up googling to see if I’ve done correctly. So making video as fast as native out of the box is incredibly welcome.
John Simon - I would welcome an Intel processor for this but you'd have to agree they are very expensive. An Intel Core i9-7940X is 1500 USD! The hope that AMD might add multiple GPUs per processor would be better for VMs if the heat can be managed plus the fact that Intel GPUs are rather weak. Either way this really opens the door to a lot of great stuff.
Some years ago I used VirtualBox to run four VMs and have them communicate with each other - one running an obscure network server implementation running on NT 4.0 (Banyan's StreetTalk for NT), whilst the others were various clients running MS-DOS, Windows 95 and NT. The notable thing about this is that they were communicating with each other via a custom protocol over the VMs virtualised ethernet. I had hoped to get the native Banyan server OS installed in yet another VM, but couldn't get the OS to recognise the VirtualBox CD drive to complete installation.
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You should have mentioned guest extensions; sometimes they greatly improve performance.
i've been looking to get a virtual machine to run old pc games that don't run on windows 10 and this video was very handy in explaining what i can do to do so.
Congratulations on this excellent video ! I was able to install my virtual box on my machine. It worked and I am very glad you made this video and I found it.
Great video. I sent the link to one of my classes has to set up virtual machines for a security lab. The students use VirtualBox because it's free, so I'm glad to see the improvements in the latest version.
Thanks Chris, I have always wanted to try this but put it off through fear of messing up the PC, but this step by step has emboldened me to try again. Good man!
Good luck! :) See also my follow-up video, running Windows in Linux, that shows some extra VirtualBox tricks: ua-cam.com/video/OWmD8obq4eQ/v-deo.html :)
Dear Christopher, I just write to you to thank you for your web site and UA-cam videos. It is really instructive and easy to understand. where to get the win 10 ios thanks
Just a bit of advice to all advanced users that install Virtual Box, always back up your system before installing and before allowing Windows to update itself!
A big thanks for this video. I recently bought a Raspberry pi 4 and played around with Raspbian while it was being shipped. I just love the ability to test new O/S. TYVM.
was looking for info on virtual machines, imagine my delight to see that you made this videi a few years ago. great video as per usual, looking forward to trying this out. i hope you are safe considering the new strain found in the uk
Just Great info thanks so much trying to play older games and windows 10 blows. Virtual Box and pcriver to get a ISO is just awsome thanks for showing the XP part in your video thats what i was looking for and how to step by step install.
I love virtual machines! On my desktop I have recreated some of my favorite old PCs (right down to applications) MS-DOS 6.0, WFW 3.11 (on MS-DOS 6.22), Win98 SE (with the "infamous" Plus! package and Win XP SP3. A bonus of Virtual Box is that the machines can be "exported" for not only backup of your VMs, but put them on multiple PCs!
Thanks for this video. I learned a lot about virtual machines, I'm just a beginner and now I understand and get it how this stuff works. A big thumbs up for you sir.
Yes, even though I taught certification classes at the college, I could never quite get across the concept of a virtual machine to new folks, just kept getting the deer in the headlights look. Subnetting was an easier concept for them to grasp.
I wasn't expecting to showcase other "options" like LXC, Docker, oVirt etc, but at least you could show that you can keep going as long as your hardware allow it. Meaning a VM in a VM in a VM in a VM .... to "add" security layers for example.
Thanks Chris. Before I try this, please could you answer the following: I run a dual boot system XP home 32 bit and Win 7 64 bit (for reasons I'll not bore you with now). My sound card isn't supported in XP and I was wondering whether or not a host machine running Win 7 could control my sound card allowing me to play sound from a virtual machine running XP as a slave device? If so, then no more dual boot :-)
Thank-you for getting back to me. I'll try this out and post my results here in this thread......it may be a few days though as I'm heading into a very busy week! :-)
I now have an update to my previous post. A little background.... I have moved from having XP 32bit to Windows 7 64 bit as my main OS. This was so that I can run Cubase 9.5, which is exclusively 64bit. My old 32 bit plug ins will not work via a bit bridge from Cubase 9 onwards, so when I upgraded, I kept my old 32 bit system running an older version of Cubase and added a new hard drive with the new 64 bit OS, but dual booting from the BIOS when required. I was interested in VirtualBox as I thought that it may save me time booting and re-booting between drives. Okay, this is what happened.... I installed VirtualBox, but had to exit the program and re-open it to run my virtual XP to get any sound playing. On inspecting the sound playback device in the control panel , the sound device is listed as 'Intel(r) Integrated Audio'. This is now playing sound happily through my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 (connected over firewire), but at 44.1kHz and not my default 48kHz...... not an issue for test purposes. Getting to my USB drives was fun...the host application (Windows 7 64bit) grabbed anything plugged in and I had to' eject' the disc by right clicking the drive icon and selecting 'eject' and then I had to select it for use in the virtual application from 'devices' in the Oracle VM menu (not visible the virtual XP until I had). I then had to remember to eject the USB device to use it in the host without unplugging it (just like remembering to un-mount a USB drive when removing it from a Mac). However, I wasn't able to access any files from my fixed drives, so, for my purposes, I will need to continue to dual boot from XP to 7. I do like the fact that you can test a new OS and run old software really easily using VirtualBox, so I will be using it again. **A NOTE OF CAUTION**?? I noticed in virtual XP that it wouldn't open any https sites using IE and that it may have opened up a non secure port on the network to access some http sites on the internet, thus bypassing my AVG on the host...just thought I'd mention it. Thanks Again Chris for reviewing this software and apologies for the long winded reply.... :-)
thank you for such a clear and well-paced video - much the best I have seen on this topic, which makes it a lot clearer than I have been about it so far
Sweet. Just a few days ago I was trying to install Windows 98 SE in VirtualBox 5.2.6 from an Installation CD and was having a little trouble getting VirtualBox to recognise the CD in the optical drive.
Try installing msdos and cdrom drivers first. Then run win98se setup.exe after you type d: in msdos. I did this with w98se before and i had no problem :) hope this helps!
I used a copy of the Windows 98SE boot floppy to install a copy of Windows 98SE. It was a .img file I attached after adding a virtual floppy disk controller.
@@bison8745 yes, but it depends on how bad the virus is. If it’s just a simple trojan you should be fine. I believe it is for the most part uncommon for a virus to be able to infect your actual OS. Someordinarygamers’ channel can give a lot more information since he does exactly what you’re talking about.
Great explanation ! I also find it very handy that you can install a virtual machine of any operating system abd then just copy that virtual machine's directory to another of your computers where you also installed virtualbox or vmware and then you can just import its settings and run a clone of it. Instead of this manual method you can also use Vbox to export the machine to an .ova file and import it on the other computer. Online there can also be found pre-installed virtual images of OS-es but be careful for virusses.
I have read that there are some viruses that are smart enough to realize they are running in a VM and to cross over (and there is quite a lot of discussion about such possibilities online. Certainly it is unlikely. But I would not want to say "never" in this situation where hardware is clearly being shared.
Yes there could be a chance for a virus to work. It is very dangerous especially when one is working on a computer having some really important data. But at that time our Antivirus software comes into play. Thanks everyone for your reply.
Depends. Best option is to have antivirus (if applicable for your guest platform), and a sandboxing application. On Windows, I have Sandboxie, and on Linux I use Firejail.
If installing on windoz 11, you will need: *Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022* pack! This under VirtualBox 7.04 And Linux Mint 21.04. I have a new Asus with Intel so I choose x64. Also had to choose 2-Cores or it wouldn't start!
You can get IP banned and it bans all accounts on that WiFi connection. If you hate fortnite and don’t want a virus? Cool just if you want to play don’t do it
One thing that got me for a bit, If you update the virtual machine manager, you need to update the guest add-on to both the manager and each of your created virtual machines. My virtual Win 10 would not update until I did so.
Used VirtualBox for years. Great program, has a few issues but regardless its probably one of the most useful programs I ever use. It allows me to have windows 10 systems which can game and are super easy to use. while also running several Linux VM's for the heavy lifting, talking to servers and just tinkering... Of course I know of VM ware, I've literally never had even the curiosity to install it and try :-/
btw, if youre having issues opening into full screen as in the option is greyed out and wont allow you to click it. It might be your monitors settings fault. Try editing your monitors resolution inside of the VM and your host PC. example, my 2k monitor wont allow full screen until the resolutions match on both systems. The default in the VM is 1080, so right click your desktop - display settings - display - display resolution. change to whichever your monitor is or what your host pc is set at. hope that all makes sense.
Another well presented video! To install 64 bit OS I had to enable virtualisation, the first attempt at install only offered 32 bit, so on my Intel i7 its not optional. Also an issue when I started the Mint install; it stated the default 10Gb allocation was 'insufficient disk space' and would not continue.
Thanks for this. I realise now that I got away with Linux Mint at 10GB as I installed a slightly older version. Sounds like you got things working though?
As several people have noted below, when you have created a virtual machine in VirtualBox it is very handy to install what are known as “Guest Additions” in the guest operating system to improve performance (eg to allow use of full-screen mode, and the sharing of a folders with the host operating system). Some Linux distros (such as Linux Mint as shown in the video) do not need Guest Additions installed to run full-screen, and as the video was already long and involved, I chose not to cover Guest Additions in the video. In retrospect, this was a mistake on my behalf. However, in most instances Guest Additions install very easily as follows.
Boot up your virtual machine (not in full-screen mode) and in the top VirtualBox menu select “Devices” and then “Insert Guest Additions CD Image”. This mounts a virtual CD in your guest operating system, which should autorun (or ask you if it can autorun). So then just follow through the install process, including the involved reboot of the guest operating system, and Guest Additions will be added to your guest system. If the virtual CD does not autorun, navigate to it and run the appropriate file (eg it is “VBoxWindowsAdditons.exe” in Windows). Enjoy! :)
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Fabulous video sir..thanks a lot.Please make a video over ubuntu mate &how we can install it on a pen drive&run use or boot from pen drive..
Ur biggest fan from India👌👌
ExplainingComputers please help me and read this commemt waht iso file is that you have please help
ExplainingComputers please reply please reply please reply please reply what iso filw did you use not to disturb but please i meed help please
ExplainingComputers please can i contact you to help me setup a virtual machine for me through email using team viewer i dont know how to set up a vm do you know how to set up a vm perhaps you can help me i promise that any information you give me will remain confidential i am not trying to hack you scam or anything bad i simply need help please if you can the please reply please note i am not trying to hack scam or threaten you i just need help legitimately so if your intrested i understand this may sound fishy or may seem a bit wierd or off point but i need help if you know any other videos or maybe site that may help me out please feel free to leave a link to any site i can get help or iso files soni can set up my own virtual machine thx
I think this video explains it very well, personally. A very good introduction to VM'ing. Just follow this process and there is no reason it won't work. I have found if you do the steps as he is doing then it makes it much easier.
Chris, You are amazing, the way you teach is wonderful, everything is laid out so crystal clear and precise, who in this world could not learn loads of useful thing from you once they have seen your video, I for one, know exactly what to do, if only all teachers were as good as you, the world be full of people that could do anything that they put their mind to, once they have got the know how.
Thanks for this kind feedback. :)
100% agree. It's getting harder to find tutorials from people who sound professional. Even if you are an expert, if you are constantly swearing and using street slang, it takes away from the learning for me.
Can you confirm if it works for phone firmwares as well?
cmon don't get too emotional.
I found out that if you want to access your VM from outside, or from another VM, set the network interface to "Bridged" in the guest. You need that if you want to use the VM as a server, and the default is NAT. Excellent presentation.
I was gonna use it to record different angles in video games. Would it work good for that you think? I have a decent rig with lots of resources.
@@ApeGo1772 I have no idea about that specific application, sorry,
This channel should be deemed as essential as any public utility. Thank you for taking the time to make so many subjects simple!
I've pondered setting up virtual machines in the past, but never really done anything about it. Now I know what I'm doing, I will delve into it for sure. Thanks for another superb video Chris.
oh? Well, did you ever set up a virtual machine?
@@BakedBanana Sadly not had time to give it all the attention I want to yet. Still on my todo list though.
@@spikekentWhat about now!
I have installed virtual Box on my Windows 10 Pro laptop. Getting ready to run it on this laptop. Found this video doing a search on UA-cam which helped me get the program ready to run. Thanks Chris for this video helped a lot. Now I can run some Linux distro's without having to install them on my hard drive.
Bonus tip: the virtual machine created by VirtualBox or other virtualization software is simply a set of files. Those files can be copied to another computer and the virtual machine run there as well. (Be sure to shutdown the virtual machine before copying the files.)
So, for example, you have Linux Mint in a VirtualBox virtual machine on your Windows computer. You also have a Mac computer wih VirtualBox installed. Copy the files of the Linux Mint virtual machine folder to the Mac in its virtual machine folder. For the specific details of how to do this use Google or UA-cam to find examples.
It is also possible to do this with VirtualBox on one computer and VMware Player on another. Although, it gets a little complicated. Again, Google or UA-cam to find specific tutorials.
Mark Conger I should really read other comments before making my own, LOL, You're absolutely right!
I've had simply copying 'em elsewhere fail. However, exporting an .OVA worked great. At least for my own... when I tried to import someone else's .OVA, it threw up all over itself. May not quite have the hang of this VM thing yet. :)
Dear Christopher,
I just write to you to thank you for your web site and UA-cam videos. It is really instructive and easy to understand. Moreover, watching you help me to improve my english.
Thanks to you, I discover so many things I didn’t know ! I realy enjoy and apreciate what you do to develop our knowledge.
Philippe, a new french follower.
Thanks. :)
Thanks for making it all look really easy and you explained everything really well. And that XP-shut down sound made me smile..memories!
Important timestamps (for me:)
4:52 Virtual Box preferences
5:16 Change the default Machine Folder to something non-SSD
5:44 Creating a VM
7:04 Starting the VM
8:21 Installing the guest OS
10:14 Installation finished
Important note: it is not advisable to use external storage such as a USB hard drive or flash drive for the virtual machine folder. Performance of a virtual machine is directly a function of disk speed. Flash drives are too slow and can be worn out pretty quickly with the amount of disk writes the virtualization software makes. External USB hard drives, while not prone to wear out like flash drives, do suffer speed issues due to the bottleneck of the USB port. Also, if the USB drive gets accidentally disconnected the virtual machine files may get corrupted.
What about an SD card?
@@mikecop45380 a sd card isnt fast at all
is this an issue with SSDs too since they only have a limited number of writes?
@@dailleursstraits - the point is that having the virtual machine files on a USB device is a speed bottleneck. There is also the risk of accidental disconnection.
An SSD is probably not going to wear out unless it is a small capacity unit. The smaller the capacity the fewer chips it has. Chips are what have the write lifespan so the more chips the longer the life.
Look at the specs for the SSD on the manufacturer website. The value you want to look for is TBW, or terabytes written. This is the maximum for the drive. It’s easy to see how TBW is affected by drive capacity by looking at other capacity versions of the same series.
@@markconger8049 thanks for the detailed answer, appreciate it
I have known about this for over a decade but never really got the inspiration to try it since I don't really need it. This video has peaked my interest though i still do not have a need for a virtual machine.
Great presentation. Appreciated the info presented.
Hi there. Awhile back I posted on here that whenever I tried to set up a VM that ran Linux Mint (19) my initial desktop screen after establishing the VM was all scrambled like static and unusable. Since you actually took the time to offer a reply, I thought I'd post the solution since I figured it out and since this appears to be somewhat common.
After many days of frustration, I found the answer right under my nose...in the Linux Mint release notes under "Known Issues!" (I feel silly having missed it)
To fix the issue, simply hit the Host key (which is usually the Right Ctrl key on a Windows host, or the left Command key on a Mac host) and F1, then hit Host+F7 to go back, and voila! Fixed! For Mac users, be sure to hit the fn key to activate the function keys when you execute these commands.
Thank you for making such great tutorial content. I hope this helps someone.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing the solution here. :)
Thanks for another straightforward video.
A tip. After setting up the VM, do not go into settings for that VM before starting it. If you do then the First Start Wizard does not run. You then have no easy way to install an ISO file. I had to 'remove' my VM and recreate it. Then the wizard ran fine.
Agreed. But note that doing into the general settings for VirtualBox will not create this issue -- only changing the settings for a new machine.
I'm an old codger, but I have to say your Videos instil enthusiasm and experimental spirit! Full of useful info, clarity, no fluff, and as a big bonus, I find your sense of humour engaging, the british charm comes thru. I'm dead keen to try this out, and look forward to your videos on different OSs. I haven't yet subscribed to any channel, but I can feel myself wavering/cracking. Top notch, best computer channel on the web! Would VM be an alternative to Wine? If VM is not running, I assume the resources are then returned to the main OS.
I'm so, so very grateful to you! I was completely frustrated by not being able to restore a Dell Inspiron 1501 running Windows Vista Business. This video was helpful in finding a solution. Many thanks!!!
I think you should make a video about hypervisors in general, and explain how they work and how they are used for actual work (like sharing a server with many clients for example)
really awesome that you made this video so people that dont know about virtual operating systems, that wanna try linux or such, can feel confident and try it whitout any risk
That's brilliant! I've wondered about VMs but not sure what was involved. I'm going to try this. Thanks Chris.
Happy experimenting! :)
How can someone dislike such content? This man is a brilliant teacher!
Some people come here to dislike. It is kind of their hobby, apparently.
I Agree, he is excellent .. but it does feel like im watching Rainbow .. is voice is so simular :)
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so you watch Jim Browning too. Im actually using it so i can rick role everyone who is using the wifi at the current time.
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I installed VitualBox and followed along installing Linux mint and Windows XP. I had a little trouble installing Windows XP but finally got it to boot from the CD-ROM drive. Thanks for the information I have a few iso's I can use. I have a 80GB external HHD with a USB adapter and that is what I save my Downloads to. I used the same folder you did on the drive and it seems to work fine.
this is great, I'm going to use this to keep my fresh built PC safe from scammers , it happened to me once, luckily I realized what was going on before the damage was done, now I can access THEIR desktop like them & delete their files haha , add viruses or create a syskey to lock them out & hopefully save someone else from being scammed, thank you for this video, it was very straight forward & easy to understand
Excellent tutorial. I have watched a number of videos on doing this and none as clear as this one. Thanks and thumbs up.
I hope Chris keeps this up for a long time.
3 years later
I use Virtual Box a lot for experimenting. Another thing you can do with the network configuration is to create a virtual network to allow two virtual machines to talk to each other as if they are on an isolated LAN network. I have used it, for instance, testing out setting up a Linux distribution as an internet firewall where the virtual Windows 7 machine had to go through the virtual Linux machine to get access to the internet as it was only linked to the virtual LAN network with no access to the physical LAN network. The virtual Linux machine was set up with two LAN ports, one linked to the physical LAN port and the other linked to the virtual LAN port. I have also found running a copy of Open Media Vault on Virtual Box as a good way to turn on and off access to files on my external drives through the internet. I then can just by running a virtual computer on my system have a way I can access files when I am away and want to be able to access them, but easily shut down access to them when not needed.
Interesting video, I watch a lot of scam baiting videos and I've always wondered how they make and prepare a VM.
Haha, that's exactly why I'm here
@@workaccount4848 That's a double for me.
Outstanding, straightforward explanation with clear, crisp visuals. Well done.
Many thanks!
If you GPU Passthrough your graphic card to Windows in a virtual machine, you can play all Windows games at near native performance 95-98% and also run graphic intensive softwares like Adobe Premiere for example. If you have two graphic cards or if your CPU has iGPU, you can GPU Passthrough. You will need Linux, QEMU instead of VirtualBox and also Virt-Manager which is a GUI front end for QEMU.
You can follow the GPU Passthrough tutorials to set it up. If you have two graphic cards, check they are not in the same IOMMU group, you can't GPU Passthrough if they are in the same IOMMU group. You shouldn't have this problem if have one graphic card and if CPU has iGPU, you can use iGPU for Linux and passthrough GPU to Windows VM. GPU Passthrough will be hard for novice users to setup right now as it is not yet to a stage where anyone can point and click passthrough GPU.
Wanted to start using a VM and your clear and straightforward video has pathed the way for me. Thanks very much for all your efforts in this and all your other videos.
You're welcome! Good luck with your VM.
Cool stuff! I'm looking forward to when AMD starts embedding GPUs in Threadripper CPUs that will allow IO-MMU pass-through. VMs with no video lag, now that's awesome!
Intel has had ‘quite alright for Chrome’ embedded GPUs in their chips for years, what’s missing, here? Why isn’t intel
Right now, whenever I install a Ubuntu VM on Vbox installing drivers and enabling 3D support is a few extra steps that I always wind up googling to see if I’ve done correctly.
So making video as fast as native out of the box is incredibly welcome.
John Simon - I would welcome an Intel processor for this but you'd have to agree they are very expensive. An Intel Core i9-7940X is 1500 USD! The hope that AMD might add multiple GPUs per processor would be better for VMs if the heat can be managed plus the fact that Intel GPUs are rather weak. Either way this really opens the door to a lot of great stuff.
Some years ago I used VirtualBox to run four VMs and have them communicate with each other - one running an obscure network server implementation running on NT 4.0 (Banyan's StreetTalk for NT), whilst the others were various clients running MS-DOS, Windows 95 and NT. The notable thing about this is that they were communicating with each other via a custom protocol over the VMs virtualised ethernet.
I had hoped to get the native Banyan server OS installed in yet another VM, but couldn't get the OS to recognise the VirtualBox CD drive to complete installation.
You should have mentioned guest extensions; sometimes they greatly improve performance.
Yes, indeed -- but I had to stop somewhere! :)
How to you install the extentions ??
i've been looking to get a virtual machine to run old pc games that don't run on windows 10 and this video was very handy in explaining what i can do to do so.
If you get an ugly corrupt screen when Linux first runs use (Ctrl+Alt F1) & then back with (Ctr+Alt F7) to display correctly.
Congratulations on this excellent video ! I was able to install my virtual box on my machine. It worked and I am very glad you made this video and I found it.
Great to hear!
Wow, and a hearty "Thank you." That was a great episode and you've answered a question I've been dealing with for a long time. Thank you!
Great video. I sent the link to one of my classes has to set up virtual machines for a security lab. The students use VirtualBox because it's free, so I'm glad to see the improvements in the latest version.
I’m thinking to myself right now, “Why did I get rid of all my old software two years ago?”
Sorry about that . . .
Yes, I am installing my old CDs and other software on my 98, XP virtual machine and it works great!
@@dennisdevine9563 what kind of software? I found some old 3DMax 2.0 disks and have been trying to get them to run within Win NT haha
@@t.c6080 Games, Graphics Apps, etc
As a teacher of technology, I hope to emulate your style of instruction. Lets hope i'm successful. Hats off to you.
If you install VBOX guest additions you'll find that Win XP is cured of it's quirks. No more double mouse, and you'll have proper screen auto resize.
Yes, I must try this. :)
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Thanks Chris, I have always wanted to try this but put it off through fear of messing up the PC, but this step by step has emboldened me to try again. Good man!
This worked a hoot once I found the VT-x setting in BIOS. Thanks!
Very informative sir. This concept was really confusing me for the past few weeks. But now it's all clear. Thanks once again.🙂
Thank you so much, this video helped alot! I am currently using a virtual machine to test out what viruses will do, what sites are safe, etc.
col31212121 yes it is very safe
Cool cuz I might do some malware studies myself
Thank you for this. I've wanted to explore Vms for quite some time, and now have the information and courage to do so.
Good luck! :) See also my follow-up video, running Windows in Linux, that shows some extra VirtualBox tricks: ua-cam.com/video/OWmD8obq4eQ/v-deo.html :)
@@ExplainingComputers On further exploration, I also need to install: Python 7.0.2, Python Core, WIN32API bindings... not as easy as I'd hoped.
Dear Christopher,
I just write to you to thank you for your web site and UA-cam videos. It is really instructive and easy to understand. where to get the win 10 ios
thanks
Thanks for your kind feedback. Win 10 ISO from here: www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
I am following you for last 2 weeks. I love your presentation, very understand full.
Thanks .
:)
Just a bit of advice to all advanced users that install Virtual Box, always back up your system before installing and before allowing Windows to update itself!
Wise advice, certainly. Backing up is always good. :)
A big thanks for this video. I recently bought a Raspberry pi 4 and played around with Raspbian while it was being shipped. I just love the ability to test new O/S. TYVM.
Great to hear.
Thank you very much. More videos of this kind, please!
I will try to keep 'em coming! :)
Hello Chris. Would you make another video about Docker, an alternative of virtualisation?
I love to watch your videos especially on old computers. Great videos. Very clear and helpful.
watching in a vm i installed to just to flex
It's so ultimate that he hearted it lol
@@alif-1223 true XD
Lmaooo
was looking for info on virtual machines, imagine my delight to see that you made this videi a few years ago. great video as per usual, looking forward to trying this out. i hope you are safe considering the new strain found in the uk
Thanks for this. Note that I also cover VMs in this video: ua-cam.com/video/OWmD8obq4eQ/v-deo.html
thanks, checking it out now :)
Just Great info thanks so much trying to play older games and windows 10 blows. Virtual Box and pcriver to get a ISO is just awsome thanks for showing the XP part in your video thats what i was looking for and how to step by step install.
This is one of the best pc videos on you tube. Thankyou for for time and effort.
You can also affect your virtual machine with viruses without affecting your main machine!
I love virtual machines! On my desktop I have recreated some of my favorite old PCs (right down to applications) MS-DOS 6.0, WFW 3.11 (on MS-DOS 6.22), Win98 SE (with the "infamous" Plus! package and Win XP SP3. A bonus of Virtual Box is that the machines can be "exported" for not only backup of your VMs, but put them on multiple PCs!
Thanks Mr. Chris ! That was really Helpful !
Thanks for this video. I learned a lot about virtual machines, I'm just a beginner and now I understand and get it how this stuff works. A big thumbs up for you sir.
Glad it helped!
Note that the Extension Pack for VirtualBox is only for Personal Use.
Free for personal use only, yes.
A video on ESXi might be appropriate considering it is one of the most common hypervisors used in enterprises.
Very useful & explained really well, ty
At last!
Someone clear informative and worth listening too.
Well presented and we'll thought out.
thank you
Thanks.
I sure could have used this when I was learning how to use Vm's. Had to learn learn this the hard way (no tutorials) :(
I needed a vm so I can run different versions of a program I'm using and this worked great. Thanks for the amazing step by step tutorial!
anyway to get 50 vms?
Very good tutorial!
Yes, even though I taught certification classes at the college, I could never quite get across the concept of a virtual machine to new folks, just kept getting the deer in the headlights look. Subnetting was an easier concept for them to grasp.
I wasn't expecting to showcase other "options" like LXC, Docker, oVirt etc, but at least you could show that you can keep going as long as your hardware allow it.
Meaning a VM in a VM in a VM in a VM .... to "add" security layers for example.
Thanks Chris. Before I try this, please could you answer the following:
I run a dual boot system XP home 32 bit and Win 7 64 bit (for reasons I'll not bore you with now).
My sound card isn't supported in XP and I was wondering whether or not a host machine running Win 7 could control my sound card allowing me to play sound from a virtual machine running XP as a slave device?
If so, then no more dual boot :-)
This may indeed potentially work. I have got sound out of XP in VirtualBox with no configuration required after the install.
Thank-you for getting back to me. I'll try this out and post my results here in this thread......it may be a few days though as I'm heading into a very busy week! :-)
(just posting a message to get notifications due to curiosity)
(me too)
I now have an update to my previous post.
A little background....
I have moved from having XP 32bit to Windows 7 64 bit as my main OS. This was so that I can run Cubase 9.5, which is exclusively 64bit.
My old 32 bit plug ins will not work via a bit bridge from Cubase 9 onwards, so when I upgraded, I kept my old 32 bit system running an older version of Cubase and added a new hard drive with the new 64 bit OS, but dual booting from the BIOS when required.
I was interested in VirtualBox as I thought that it may save me time booting and re-booting between drives.
Okay, this is what happened....
I installed VirtualBox, but had to exit the program and re-open it to run my virtual XP to get any sound playing.
On inspecting the sound playback device in the control panel , the sound device is listed as 'Intel(r) Integrated Audio'. This is now playing sound happily through my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 (connected over firewire), but at 44.1kHz and not my default 48kHz...... not an issue for test purposes.
Getting to my USB drives was fun...the host application (Windows 7 64bit) grabbed anything plugged in and I had to' eject' the disc by right clicking the drive icon and selecting 'eject' and then I had to select it for use in the virtual application from 'devices' in the Oracle VM menu (not visible the virtual XP until I had). I then had to remember to eject the USB device to use it in the host without unplugging it (just like remembering to un-mount a USB drive when removing it from a Mac).
However, I wasn't able to access any files from my fixed drives, so, for my purposes, I will need to continue to dual boot from XP to 7.
I do like the fact that you can test a new OS and run old software really easily using VirtualBox, so I will be using it again.
**A NOTE OF CAUTION**??
I noticed in virtual XP that it wouldn't open any https sites using IE and that it may have opened up a non secure port on the network to access some http sites on the internet, thus bypassing my AVG on the host...just thought I'd mention it.
Thanks Again Chris for reviewing this software and apologies for the long winded reply.... :-)
Excellent! Very interesting and thorough demo of VMs. I feel a lot more confident about experimenting with them now.
You should install wine on the mint vm. "OS-ception" I know it's pointless but a funny idea nevertheless
:)
thank you for such a clear and well-paced video - much the best I have seen on this topic, which makes it a lot clearer than I have been about it so far
Sweet. Just a few days ago I was trying to install Windows 98 SE in VirtualBox 5.2.6 from an Installation CD and was having a little trouble getting VirtualBox to recognise the CD in the optical drive.
What a small world it can be! :)
You have to change the priority of boot and put First the cd unit
I had same I just copied contents of CD to an iso file using Anyburn and mounted that as a virtual optical drive.
Try installing msdos and cdrom drivers first. Then run win98se setup.exe after you type d: in msdos. I did this with w98se before and i had no problem :) hope this helps!
I used a copy of the Windows 98SE boot floppy to install a copy of Windows 98SE. It was a .img file I attached after adding a virtual floppy disk controller.
A side note: you remind me of the best professor I had in first and years undergrad.
Good ole spellcheck. SB first and second years...
I will mostly use this to test downloads and check them for viruses
Just to make sure,on a VM,i could download viruses then once i reset,they would be gone and my real computer wouldnt be affected,right?
@@bison8745 yes, but it depends on how bad the virus is. If it’s just a simple trojan you should be fine. I believe it is for the most part uncommon for a virus to be able to infect your actual OS. Someordinarygamers’ channel can give a lot more information since he does exactly what you’re talking about.
Great explanation ! I also find it very handy that you can install a virtual machine of any operating system abd then just copy that virtual machine's directory to another of your computers where you also installed virtualbox or vmware and then you can just import its settings and run a clone of it. Instead of this manual method you can also use Vbox to export the machine to an .ova file and import it on the other computer. Online there can also be found pre-installed virtual images of OS-es but be careful for virusses.
So can you keep installing VM's within VM's Inception style?
Nice . . .
(I believe so(I believe so(I believe so)))
Thanks Chris, video & presentation deserves a subscription......here it is.
Welcome aboard.
Suppose if we have to test a virus , and if close the network settings, is the virus going to enter in my host os is or not???
Potentially a virus can infect a host from a virtual machine, though the chances will be smaller if you shut down the network connection.
if you close the connection it won't affect the host. I tried it once, the only infected are the VMs
I have read that there are some viruses that are smart enough to realize they are running in a VM and to cross over (and there is quite a lot of discussion about such possibilities online. Certainly it is unlikely. But I would not want to say "never" in this situation where hardware is clearly being shared.
Yes there could be a chance for a virus to work. It is very dangerous especially when one is working on a computer having some really important data. But at that time our Antivirus software comes into play. Thanks everyone for your reply.
Depends. Best option is to have antivirus (if applicable for your guest platform), and a sandboxing application. On Windows, I have Sandboxie, and on Linux I use Firejail.
Having so much fun doing this dude. Thanks for a great video. Very clear and easy to follow.
is that vm inside vm? kind of incepcion :D
Great! A nice way to play around and get used to Linux before 2020 and the final update of my Windows 7. Thank you!
I have a question, if I get a virus on this virtual machine, will I have the virus even in normal Windows?
In theory the virus should only impact the virtual system.
If installing on windoz 11, you will need: *Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022* pack! This under VirtualBox 7.04
And Linux Mint 21.04. I have a new Asus with Intel so I choose x64. Also had to choose 2-Cores or it wouldn't start!
Great. Now install VM in your virtual Linux install and run Windows in it. :-)
Hoopy thinking Sir! :)
Excellent video. You did a great job explaining in novice terms. Thank you.
Hopefully the scammers never learn how to do this lol
I learned more from this video then from any of the teachers I've had.
now I can hack in fortnite and not get banned, thanks brother
Aptenodytes lol me too
Ikr the Ikon skin came out so yea xD
Jack DGN bruh it won’t work for me, but good luck for u guys
You can get IP banned and it bans all accounts on that WiFi connection. If you hate fortnite and don’t want a virus? Cool just if you want to play don’t do it
@@uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh0 IP bans are shit because you can just change your IP lul
I was able to use many of these tips for my own 2 day old installation of Virtualbox.
Great to hear. :)
how to do mac os in vm on win 10, please
This is the second vote for this -- so I may do a video! :)
This is the most useful video I've seen for VMs! Keep up the great work!
THanks.
Thanks again
One thing that got me for a bit, If you update the virtual machine manager, you need to update the guest add-on to both the manager and each of your created virtual machines. My virtual Win 10 would not update until I did so.
I did this to test if viruses and other random stuff
Itzyaboi_YT Anything that u download on the virtual machine will it affect ur actual pc
@@tabascobeats how
Itzyaboi_YT no like will it affect ur actual pc “the host”?
@@tabascobeats So your saying if I put a virus in my virtual machine the virus will go into my other computer??
Itzyaboi_YT ye
Used VirtualBox for years. Great program, has a few issues but regardless its probably one of the most useful programs I ever use. It allows me to have windows 10 systems which can game and are super easy to use. while also running several Linux VM's for the heavy lifting, talking to servers and just tinkering...
Of course I know of VM ware, I've literally never had even the curiosity to install it and try :-/
I feel VM Ware is better.
Adarsh Singh yeah!
Cyaniden yep, I think I gave it.... Ugh, but I used to way too long ago.
Good thing is that there are several solutions. I'm using both and it's fun.
Cyaniden Just use one of these. 10minutemail.net/?lang=en . An email address which is only good for 10 minutes
Richard Richard oohh, nice. Didn't know those things exist.
btw, if youre having issues opening into full screen as in the option is greyed out and wont allow you to click it. It might be your monitors settings fault. Try editing your monitors resolution inside of the VM and your host PC. example, my 2k monitor wont allow full screen until the resolutions match on both systems. The default in the VM is 1080, so right click your desktop - display settings - display - display resolution. change to whichever your monitor is or what your host pc is set at. hope that all makes sense.
i can now open a worm and not destory my pc .yeah!
Another well presented video! To install 64 bit OS I had to enable virtualisation, the first attempt at install only offered 32 bit, so on my Intel i7 its not optional. Also an issue when I started the Mint install; it stated the default 10Gb allocation was 'insufficient disk space' and would not continue.
Thanks for this. I realise now that I got away with Linux Mint at 10GB as I installed a slightly older version. Sounds like you got things working though?
Yes, working fine thanks.