Installing VM & Windows
In this guide, I’ll walk you through the process of installing VirtualBox and setting up a Windows operating system on it.
1. Download Windows 10 Enterprise
You can visit the Windows Evaluation Center and select Windows 10 Enterprise, or you can directly use the provided URL to download the ISO file, which contains the operating system. The file size is approximately 5 GB.
2. Remember we have previously downloaded VirtualBox
Since I’m using Windows, I’ll select “Windows hosts.” Clicking on it will automatically start the download.
3. Oracle VirtualBox Manager (New -> Show)
4. Windows Setup Screen - within VM
After the Windows loading screen, we are now going to be looking at the setup screen. The install process is going to be pretty self-explanatory.
5. Windows Setup - Drive Allocation.
We select the “Custom Installation” previous to this step, and allocate the drive space – this is all virtualized, click on “New” and it will, and it’s going to automatically fill the size of our drive.
6. As this is for Lab purposes, I will select "Domain join instead"
7. Now it's installing the Operating System
8. To give a bit of quality life improvement up.
To avoid this tiny cropped -in box for our desktop. We will use a usable resolution, we can head under Devices and click on “Insert Guest Additions CD image…” this is going to load an actual CD drive into our VM.
9. Install the VM Box for this lab within the VM.
What we can do after clicking on that is go under our explorer window and click on This PC, and we should see this CD Drive for VirtualBox Guest Additions, double click on that to open it up, and from here, you can just double click to run this “Vbox Windows amd64”
10. VM Improvement.
Now it’s going to have more visually pleasing integrations, within our VM. It will look much better, and finally we are going to the Devices Tab and go under Shared Clipboard -then change from Disabled to Bidirectional, and this is going to allow us to essentially share the same clipboard between our host machine and our Windows WM. It will be really useful when we want to copy and paste commands from our host into our VM, or copy and past output from our VM into our host.
It will look much better, and finally we are going to the Devices Tab and go under Shared Clipboard -then change from Disabled to Bidirectional, and this is going to allow us to essentially share the same clipboard between our host machine and our Windows WM. It will be really useful when we want to copy and paste commands from our host into our VM, or copy and past output from our VM into our host.
