Go through virtual box now box is free.
And most of it is open source but not all of it.
So if you go to this page here you can see that this is the download link.
It supports Windows Mac OSX Linux and even Solarz.
And here is the download link for the operating system that you want.
So here we're going to download the Windows version so click here and that's going to download the executable.
We also want to download this here.
So this is all supported platform the link there.
What that is is Virtual Box.
Most of it is open source but there are some things a close source.
So they come separately and they come within this and it's things-I support for US B 3.
It's the tool box DP and also disk image encryption as well.
So that and download that as well.
And if we go to where we downloaded it
and there we have virtual box and we need to click double click on the run it and it's a pretty standard
install you go through all of the options.
Now we're setting this up as a test environment.
It's OK to sleights all these.
This is just giving you a warning that your network card is going to disconnect and then reconnect as
this is installed
and you need to click yes to the drivers and the security questions like always trust if you like from
Oracle
I'm not going to go because I don't really fully trust Oracle even though this is just a test machine
for the course.
And we can start going to arrest boxes and using an operating system at random here in this case is
Linux live.
This could apply to any operating system that you're downloading.
And that's going to allow me to download a Wii the version for virtual box and that can be opened by
clicking on new selecting the operating system.
Does it say Linux version.
And use an existing virtual disk.
It these virtual disk formats
and then we go and they can start
and here is just starting to be like any other operating system.
Move that
if you download an O V A or B F file and you can find those sorts of files here on this link which I've
downloaded then you can go to file and import application look for the application that you've downloaded
and this song.
So you can see the Obey file next and it gives you the opportunity here to change your network settings
and various other settings click Import
is going to take a little time depending on the speed of your machine.
Once it's important you'll be able to see it here and there it is running.
And that's the operating system Windows 7.
And you can right click Settings and change all the usual settings and you can see
that we're you want that to be bridged as discussed if you want to be able to view the network traffic
and not have it on.
And you can see they're changing the settings because of change it's in bridged and it's it's working.
And these are all the virtual drivers and devices as a bridge Network B video memory cetera.
Now if you want to set up a virtual machine operating system from a disk or from an ISO you'd get a
new you need to set up your virtual machine template.
So in this case choosing a Linux
Debian 32 bit and you'd select whatever is that you're going to use create a virtual does now create
using VDI is fine.
Most of the default settings will be fine for a test environment.
Dynamic re-allocate this is better.
This means that it will increase the size of the virtual disk as opposed to creating one large disk
which will save you more space on file.
It should be fine unless you particularly creating large files
and then we have to put the disk in this machine and start it if we go in settings and storage and we
can see here we have an empty disk not right click here or click here I can choose where abouts I want
to get that disc from.
So if you actually have a physical disc then you want to choose a disc choose where you're going to
get that disc from maybe it's on the D drive or you can choose a virtual disc the ISO that I have downloaded.
That's a 32 bit version.
And so therefore it's mounted in Coquet still
and then you know it starts the process of installing as it would with any operating system that you've
got.
If it happens to be Windows you're going to give Windows process.
This is the Debian process.
Start the graphical version of the install for Debian and you'll go through this to install it.
And one of the reasons why you download virtual images instead they say you haven't to go through this
process of installation because someone else is doing it for you if you've got the virtual machines
already downloaded and set up and configured.
Obviously you know if you want something specific to you then you're going to need to install it and
configure it yourself.
That's about has something called the guest additions.
This is similar to VM where tools and features like kirtan page between the guest host and better support
for other guest features.
But virtual box don't make it very clear as to how to install this.
So right click on the virtual machine that you're interested in settings to storage and then select
an empty disk slot.
You can add on if you don't already have one and select here choose virtual optical disk and you want
to navigate your way to wherever you've installed the virtual box.
So here it's Program Files Oracle virtual box and you'll see there is an ISO file that they put a call
box guest additions.
So click on open and you'll see it and add that as an ISO image and that will be available when you
boot the operating system.
It acts just like any other ISO disk.
Click OK and then let's start the operating system and access that disk
so you can see here it's mounted the disk trying to run the 32 bit or the 64 bit version depending on
which version I have that's 32 That's 64.
I mean run this one
and follow through all of the options.
And then every bit will always be required
and to enable the extra features go to settings divans and then clipboard sharing and you can choose
whether or nice hosted guest guest host by directional and drag and drop so you can direct sun from
here into the operating system.
Obviously this is all a security issue.
But this is a test environment that we're setting up.
You can also set up shared folders as well so you can share between your guest and your host operating
system again security issue.
But this is just a test environment only.
So that's guest additions.
Now you also need to install the extension pack for virtual box.
And remember this is for us be two and three control support virtual P VM disk image encryption.
But you can google it to find out more about what it supports.
But basically it gives you the full functionality of virtual box.
So if you go to file and preferences and extensions.
Click here select the extension file which you downloaded this open and it's going to tell you what
it's doing here.
And you see the saying pretty much what I already said about USP or the page is some web things disk
encryption Instow read the license if you wish.
I agree yes.
So start to install the extension.
OK.
There again an extension is installed and that functionality is now available to you within virtual
box one of the great features that Virtual Box has is snapshots which is something that VM Ware workstation
player doesn't have a pro version does have snapshots enabling you to take a full static version of
the memory and the hard disk and then continue using the operating system.
And then at some point you can decide to go back to that version if you wish.
Another way of using snapshots is you can fork off different things that you're wanting to try.
So you install one thing and snapshot that install something else and snapshot that and you can switch
back and forth between the two.
You can also test out something that doesn't work go back to the previous snapshot so snapshots are
really great and particularly useful for testing and this even gives you an option here to clone the
whole virtual operating system.