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Windows Virtual Machine Installation on Linux
(Per the assignment guidelines, pages for installing Windows VMs are also required, so I made this page for Linux users)
Guide is written for Ubuntu 20.04, 64 bit machine
Follow this page's wizard to generate a download link for an official Windows ISO. This guide uses the Windows 10 ISO.
- Select applicable edition of windows and press the Confirm button (guide uses Windows 10 Multi-edition ISO )
- Select applicable language (guide uses English )
- Select 32 or 64 bit download (guide uses 64-bit Download , if 32 bit is chosen, guide may need to be modified)
- Download the ~5GB iso file, note the location saved. While file is downloading, proceed to next section
- Open a terminal and type into the CLI
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install virtualbox
Guide uses Version 6.1.26_Ubuntu r145957
. To check version, go to Help
> About VirtualBox...
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Create a virtual hard disk for Windows 10 install
- navigate to
File
>Virtual Media Manager...
- Select
Hard disks...
tab, then selectCreate
in toolbar - Select
Next
until the size is requested, guide uses 64GB, windows recommends minimum of 32GB - Select
Create
You should see the disk in the textbox
- navigate to
-
In VirtualBox main menu, Select
New
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Populate name, and select
Use an existing virtual hard disk file
select created hard disk. Recommended to turn up memory to at least 4GB -
Select Virtual Machine, and select
Settings
in main menu -
Select
Storage
and click the "disk with a plus sign" logo -
Select
Add
and navigate to downloaded file in previous step -
Hit
OK
and start up the machine
- If VM is not starting up, with error similar to
Failed to load ring-0 module 'VBoxEhciR0.r0' for device 'usb-xhci' (VERR_SYMBOL_VALUE_TOO_BIG).
first update extension packs.
sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack
(The rest of this guide has yet to be written...)