How to use Virtual Machines / VMWare / Virtual Box - Free Online Tutorial

VirtualBox (Freeware)
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
VMware Workstation (Paid Software)

VMware Workstation Pro can save the state of a virtual machine (a "snapshot") at any instant. These snapshots can later be restored, effectively returning the virtual machine to the saved state, as it was and free from any post-snapshot damage to the VM.
VMware Workstation includes the ability to designate multiple virtual machines as a team which can then be powered on, powered off, suspended or resumed as a single object, useful for testing client-server environments.
Configure a Virtual Machine
To configure a Virtual Machine, first we have to install any of the Virtual Machine Software on our PC. Then we should create a new Virtual Hardware on the PC on which we are going to install a new Operating System which is called a Guest Operating System. The guest OS is completely independent of the Host OS (The Currently running OS on which Virtual Machine is being Set-Up). Which means we can setup any platform on the Virtual Machine (Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix etc). Now let us do this with VMWare Workstation...
Now, on your new Virtual Machine Wizard, select I will install operating system later so that we can configure the OS later as we do it on the usual Desktop/Laptop. Then select the platform and the OS as which you are going to use on your Virtual Machine.
Now select the location where you would like to save the Virtual Machine files, and give a name for your Virtual Machine here. Then it will create a default hardware configuration for the selected OS. You can customize it by clicking the Customize Hardware button here or later by clicking the Settings on the virtual Machine context menu. Now click on Customize Hardware to insert the CD as an ISO file.
Now click on the CD/DVD option in the Hardware Setup and select Use ISO Image file, then click on Browse to select the OS ISO Image on your PC. So that, it means you have inserted your OS CD on the new Virtual Hardware. Now close this window and click Power on this Virtual Machine to power on the virtual hardware. Now you can continue installing an Operating System on the Virtual Hardware as you do like on your actual Desktop or Laptop PC. Enjoy...
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