The last step before booting your virtual machine is to select your distro’s ISO file, of course! The virtual hard disk, I set 30GB and would recommend at least 15GB.

It usually results in less occupied space. The dynamic allocation fills up the space on your disk as the data Regarding the size of a hard disk, I recommend dynamicĪllocation. You can leave default settings for hard disk and hardĭisk file type. Now you’ll need to select a hard disk, hard disk file type and the I recommend to use 2GB minimum for any Linux distro in a virtual machine. However, if you have a lot of RAM, feel free to add some GB forīetter performance. VirtualBox will automatically select the recommended amount of RAM for The next step is to select how much RAM the virtual machine is allowed to Name your virtual machine and select the right type and version. Let’s kick-off the process by clicking the “New” button in the top leftĬorner.

If you do have a virtual machine already, feel free to Fire up VirtualBox and let’s get started! Creating a virtual machineīefore we dive into settings, we need to create a virtual machine.

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