vm intro vb finnix

Introduction to using VMs with VirtualBox

This is a very general tool, we are using a very small and simple system at first to boot as a live image as our demonstration.

Learning to use this tool will allow you to try almost any OS that provides an image for this architecture. (If the architecture is emulated (eg, ARM, MIPS running on an x86/arm64 host) it will be too slow for many uses. Hardware virtualization is fast for another OS on the same processor type.)

• Go to finnix.org
• Find the x86/amd64 image 111
• download it
• locate it on your computer
  • in D:\Users\<netid>\Downloads
  • otherwise, move it
• start VirtualBox
• delete old VM
• click New to create new VM
• name everything 'finnix'
  • name the VM 'finnix'
  • name the new drive image finnix
  • (if you were installing, would name user account this way to match)
• attach a CD image
• boot
• observe