Virtualbox installation and usage instructions and Virtual Machine installation of XP system graphic tutorial

Original address: warp, BSD and other systems as the client operating system, and the latest version: VirtualBox-4.1.18-78361 (release) also supports Android 4.0 system, to a greater extent to give users convenience, it is very powerful and easy to use. It occupies less memory than other virtual machine software and is worth downloading. This article describes how to install and use virtualbox and how to install the XP system on a virtual machine.

1. virtualbox introduction:

After the virtualbox virtual system software was acquired by Sun, the performance was greatly improved. Unlike Vm, vbox is open-source and powerful. It can be run on Linux/MAC and Windows hosts, windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, win7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), OpenBSD, and other operating systems are supported.

Ii. Download and install virtualbox:

1. Download virtualbox, software: http://soft.huweishen.com/soft/238.html

2. After the download is complete, extract the file to any location and double-click to decompress the file to perform the installation steps shown in:

Figure 1: Start the Installation Wizard

Figure 2: component selection

Figure 3: Select whether to create a shortcut

Figure 4: Confirm Installation

Figure 5: installation progress

Figure 6: Installation Complete

Figure 7: virtualbox Main Interface (figure)

Iii. Detailed graphic tutorial on installing XP using virtualbox:

1. Create a new Virtual Machine: to install the system on the virtual machine, we need to build an environment for it, which is equivalent to the bare metal in reality, the configuration can be set based on the hardware requirements of the system to be installed, or you can directly select the default value, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 8: select the virtual machine system type and select the name as needed

Figure 9: Specifies the memory size of the VM, which is usually kept by default.

Figure 10: Select whether to create a new Virtual Disk

Figure 11: select the Virtual Disk Type

Figure 12: Dynamic Scaling or fixed size

Explain the differences between "dymically allocated" and "fixed size:

Dynamic Scaling: If you allocate 10 Gb space for your virtual disk, the range of virtual disk space occupied by the virtual disk is 0 ~ 10 Gb.

Fixed size: If you allocate 10 Gb space for your virtual disk, the actual disk space occupied by the virtual disk will never be 10 Gb, regardless of whether the virtual disk space is fully used.

Figure 13: select the location and size of the VM on the local disk

Figure 14: Virtual Machine details are displayed. Click "creat" to create

Figure 15: The new virtual machine is successfully created.

2. Install the XP system on a new virtual machine:

PS: For ease of demonstration, we chose the system tomatowinxp_sp3_v1.21 of the quick installation version. The installation operations are as follows:

Figure 16: Start the Virtual Machine and prepare to install the system

Figure 17: Start the run wizard for the first time

Figure 18: select an image file as the virtual installation disc

Figure 19: select an image file on the Local Computer

Figure 20: Start the Installation Wizard and select the installation system

Figure 21: select the system installation location and divide the disk

Figure 22: You need to format the system installation Partition

Figure 23: The installation program is being executed

Figure 24: Install functions and components

Figure 25: The error dialog box is displayed because no disk is divided. Ignore this error.

Figure 26: Start the system

Figure 27: detach a virtual Disc

Note: After the system starts successfully, you need to uninstall the virtual disc to avoid entering the system installation interface every time you enter the system.

3. Install enhanced functions for installed XP:

Figure 28: Install the enhancement feature (1)

After clicking "Install enhancement", a DVD drive will appear on my computer. Double-click or right-click the drive and select "Auto Play". The system will automatically determine the installation file.

Figure 29: Click Next to continue installation

Figure 30: select the installation location. The default value is generally

Figure: select components

Figure: the installation is complete and the VM is restarted

Figure 34: Installation successful

4. How to share files with external hosts:

In general, the software we need in the virtual machine is from the external host, but only when we need to use it to share files with the external host. How can this function be implemented? Continue to read the following

Figure 35: select a data space from Virtual Machine Settings

Figure 36: select a shared directory

Figure 37: shared directory: Drive F

Figure 38: Confirm after selecting and restart the VM

Figure 39: ing Network Driver

Figure 40: select the directory you just set

Figure: the setting is successful, and the shared directory in the virtual machine is displayed.

Figure 42: Comparison of F disks on the host

4. Tips for using virtualbox:

1. Sudden Death: if the real host encounters such a situation, it may choose to wait for a slow sex. If it is a little urgent, it may choose to force the shutdown. In fact, virtualbox also comes with the Force Shutdown function, click "control"-"exit.

Figure 43: Force shutdown of virtualbox

2. If you are using a virtual machine frequently, we recommend that you back up the virtual machine to avoid unnecessary losses caused by system crashes. The virtual machine is relatively simple, click control> Generate backup.

Figure 44: virtualbox System Backup

3. The biggest advantage of virtualbox over virtualmachine is that it can easily share the network with the real host. Generally, as long as your host can access the Internet, the virtual machine can access the Internet, if not, check whether the network connection uses a bridge network, and then check whether the IP address and DNS are automatically obtained.

4. You 'd better familiarize yourself with the shortcut keys to make them faster. You can use the shortcut keys for almost every operation in the menu.

Virtual Machine mini-editor believes that the biggest benefit is that it can successfully complete the work or homework while avoiding the damage of external software to the real host system, so now many developers and beginners have chosen virtual machines as experimental tools. The basic application of virtualbox has been described above. Readers have already learned how to use virtualbox, the following is the performance of all the children's shoes.