How to create a V irtualbox

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Virtual
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Calogero Sanfilippo <sanfilippo.calogero@gmail.com>
Emanuele Cipolla <info@emanuelecipolla.net>
April 20, 2008

Figure 1: Open V irtualbox

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and click on new

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Figure 2: Choose the name of your new virtual machine and select the ap-
propriated OS type. The name of a new VM must be like this: OSname-
version number-architecture-buildname (for example, debian-4.0-x86-xfce)

Figure 3: Select the amount of RAM to be allocated to the VM

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Figure 4: Create a new virtual hard disk image to be used as the boot hard
disk of the virtual machine

Figure 5: You can create, for example, an 8 GB virtual disk, which name
must be the name of the VM.

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 Figure 6: Click Finish to enjoy your new VM!!

Figure 7: Click on Settings to choose your virtual CD/DVD-ROM

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Figure 8: You can mount the host CD/DVD Drive or an ISO image file