VBox Introduction

A “virtual computer” is a computer (a “guest”) emulated in software, running on a physical computer (a “host”). Its display can be run in a window on the host, or it can take over the full screen. The emulation is accomplished by “virtualization software”, the two main options for our purpose being Virtual Box and VmWare.

This example is written for Virtual Box, which is freely available for Windows, OSX, and Linux computers.

Running a “virtual computer” will only work on a computer with reasonably generous resources: the virtual computer will need the following from the host:

  • at least 4Gb memory

  • at least 16Gb video RAM

  • 20Gb of hard drive space.

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