To run a VM where image on virtual box start by opening up virtual box
when you go to a machine and add you'll notice that it looks for a folder a virtual box B M's that may
or may not be present.
If you have a first installation of virtual box
you go to the C drive then users your user folder you can create a virtual box directory here
right click new folder and name that virtual box.
Ms.
You don't have to use this particular name if you don't want to.
For example if you don't like spaces you can buy the hyphen in the name but on Windows it shouldn't
matter
I'm going to go to the anywhere image that I have in this case.
It's Metis portable Linux
from a download director.
Copy that.
I go back to the virtual box Ms directory and paste it over here
then I'm gonna extract the contents
in this particular case inside of the folder as another folder for minus portable to Linux.
We don't need the folders double nested.
So you are allowed to copy the folder up one level and get rid of the original.
That's your choice.
It doesn't matter how many levels deep the virtual machine is but do you know the location of the VM
decay disk file.
This is essentially the virtual hard drive of the VM where image go back to virtual box
in the virtual box beams directory that we created is our file that we unzipped go inside of this directory
and you'll notice that we can't pull up damage so it seems like we're stuck at this point.
The problem is is that we don't have the v box file or the X email file that explains to virtual box
how to open this virtual machine VM where also has a file that explains to VM where auto bred virtual
machines but it's a different file format and virtual box doesn't understand it.
So what we're going to do is run and create a new virtual machine.
Then we're going to point that to the VM or disk
in our case our image as a Linux image.
You want to pick the Linux image that's the closest to the one you have
if it's efficient memory and then when you get to the screen of creating the Virtual our disk do not
create it.
Instead click the radio button to use an existing virtual hard drive disk and click on the folder icon
click to create a button which uses the virtual hard drive that we already downloaded.
Now you can change the settings on the virtual machine.
You can enable the shared clipboard.
You can change the memory.
This is the RAM memory can also uncheck the floppy and the optical in the boot order since it's going
to be from the hard drive
if you have a 64 bit CPE you can enable the P E
and you can also dedicate more video memory
they go to the storage tab.
You'll notice that the VM decay file is the hard disk for the machine.
When you're done configuring your settings you can start the virtual machine
in your virtual machine will begin loading.