in this video I show you how to install a Windows 10 virtual machine in
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welcome my name is Joe now let's get straight into installing Windows 10
virtual machine in VirtualBox there are two main ways to install Windows 10 on
VirtualBox the first is by using an evaluation copy of Windows which is
available on the Microsoft website if you would like a guide on how to do that
then I'll leave a card up there and a link in the description below the other
way which is the way this video is going to describe today is with a standard ISO
file now this is the second video in the series so if you would like to watch the
first video again I'll leave a link in the description down below and be card
is just up there if you'd like to click on that now the rest of this video will
assume that you've already downloaded the ISO and you're ready to proceed
here we are on the screens now just before we start it's worth mentioning
you do need a valid license code even on a virtual machine so if you do not have
a license code you may need to consider the evaluation copy that we mentioned
earlier assuming that you're happy to proceed we will click on the new icon
just over here and then give our virtual machine a name I'm going to name it
Windows 10 as we move down we have the folder path to select now I've already
selected mine but if you click onto the drop down here and get other you can
navigate to the preferred location for yourself carrying on we have the type
now this is a Microsoft Windows virtual machine that we're making so you've got
some different options here but we're gonna select Microsoft Windows have
finally the version now we know it's Windows 10 and you've got the option
between 32-bit and 64-bit if you're doing a different installation of
Windows you've got all the other versions as well now I'm going to select
the 64-bit version and then click Next on this screen we need to select the
type of file we want our hard disk to appear as
now if you're doing a transfer from a different virtual machine or something
like that you may want to select one of these other the other disks but as we're
making a new hard disk on this occasion we want to select VDI and click Next
now we have two options here this is how the storage is gonna act on our physical
hard drive so we can have it dynamically allocate or fixed now there's pros and
cons to both I'm going to select dynamically allocated that basically
means that we can add or take hard drive space away from the virtual machine as
we need to if you have a fixed size than the hard drive acts as a fixed size
drive and you can no longer change it or you can but it's not very easy to do now
it's gonna ask you to confirm the place where you want the hard drive to be
saved and as you see the D Drive VirtualBox VM is for me that was the
location that I selected on the previous screens and then it's creating a
location Windows 10 which is what I called the instance and then the hard
drive is gonna be labeled the same thing with a VDI extension just below that it
asks how much harddrive space you actually want to allocate so we allocate
50 gigabytes here or a different amount if you want to and then because we
selected the dynamically allocate we can increase or decrease this as we need to
on the flyer I'm gonna leave it like this is default and click create now in
very basic terms we have created a Windows 10 virtual machine within
VirtualBox the problem right now is that this won't
actually do anything if we try and boot it up it's just gonna say there's
nothing available because we haven't installed Windows to the virtual machine
so to do that click onto the Settings button here
and then head over to storage on the left hand side and there you should see
your Windows 10 hard drive that you've just created and an empty DVD looking
icon there click onto the empty icon there and then come over to the right
hand side and this little spinny icon here the disc now in the drop down you
may see the ISO that you made earlier or if you don't you just click into the
optical disc file and navigate to the correct location once it's been mounted
you should see your Windows 10 ISO here and then you're ready to click OK now
what that's going to do is act as though it's a Windows CD inside the virtual
machine so when we start is going to ask us if we want to install a fresh version
of Windows onto the new hard drive that we've just created so now if we click
start it's going to take a few seconds to fire up and it goes straight into
Windows here and then as you would expect a PC to do it's gone into the
installation version because there's nothing else the computer can do so it's
a being clever enough to know that it needs to install Windows as you'll see
there's a couple of boxes up here these pop up every time you start up a new
virtual machine it's worth reading them so you know what's happening but you can
just click on them and close them down afterwards now for me I'm just going to
run through very quickly on the basic windows kind of setup I'm in the UK so
I've got a UK settings if you're in a different country you may want to select
different options here as I said before we do need to enter a license code you
do have the option to pass at this stage and enter it later on that's what I'm
going to do right now but just for reference if you were going to keep this
virtual machine alive then you would need to put in a license key now you may
or may not be aware that there are different versions of Windows as you can
see there's four different versions and most people would be either home or pro
so I will I'm gonna select krokus that's the version that I've got but just be
aware of which version of Windows you've purchased in which license key you have
a license for
accept the terms and click Next now for this screen I recommend clicking custom
and then just making sure you've only got one drive there and it's the 50
gigabytes that we allocated earlier if you see anything else then just consider
what you might be overriding just be aware of the size and everything and
just make sure that it does look similar to what I've got here and click Next now
that's going to start installing windows onto that virtual hard drive
you
so if you just saw there I click down in the bottom corner to get this up and
then clicked on the icon there just to stop the Cortana making lots of noise
you can listen to it if you want to but I prefer not to
so now Cortana has done her bit we can select the settings that we need so I'm
in the UK I'm going to select UK you can select whichever option is best for you
and again the keyboard layout I'm gonna select UK again that's your preference
so you don't need to select I'm selecting this is entirely up to you if
you need a second keyboard then you'll know that you need a second keyboard you
may be you have a different language that you speak you can click Add layout
and add extra keyboards there I don't need that so I'm going to click skip
and here we come to the first time setup for Windows so you can check your
preferences if you're working for an organization then you can join their
domain and everything for us for me specifically I'm going to select
personal use and click Next and now it's gonna ask me to log in with
my Microsoft account you can also select offline account if you didn't want to
have a connected account I'm gonna do that in this occasion so then select
your name I'm going to call myself Joe VN because it's my virtual machine
I'm not going to have a password but if you're sharing the computer tool I would
highly recommend that you do and now these preferences are up to yourself
obviously in a virtual machine if you're running on Windows already then if you
say something like hey Cortana then you're gonna get two versions of Cortana
load up if you're in the virtual machine as well so I'm going to say no but you
may have different preferences there I leave all of these as are
and finally we get to a Windows login screen now there's gonna be a few things
that pop up first time things like the network do you want to be discovered I'm
gonna click yes you is it's a preference thing it just means your other computers
can talk to your virtual machine if they can see it you may also have some more
of these pop-up because the computer has restarted a few times during the
installation so you can close that so here we are a fully operational Windows
10 virtual machine in VirtualBox there are a couple of additional things you
can do to improve this and I'll go through them in the next video so please
remember to like subscribe leave any comments if especially if you're having
trouble then I'd love to help you out other than that thank you very much for
your time and I'll see you in the next video