If you want to continue to try the Pro and higher editions, you should enter the product key. Author Linda has been working as an editor at MiniTool for 1 year. As a fresh man in IT field, she is curious about computer knowledge and learns it crazily. Maybe due to this point, her articles are simple and easy to understand. Even people who do not understand computer can gain something.

By the way, her special focuses are data recovery, partition management, disk clone, and OS migration. Partition Wizard. Download Partition Wizard. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Reddit. About The Author. Step 2: For downloading ISO image you must register first, so click on register to continue. Step 3: Fill out the required field with the correct information to start downloading. The fields have first name, last name, company name, email address, and country.

Check the Yes and click on continue. Step 5: Select the 32bit or 64bit version as per your requirement, and choose product language then click on download. As soon as you click on the download the downloading process will be started shortly and it will take a little bit time to download depends on the Internet speed whatever you have. After completing the downloading, we will create the virtual machine for Windows 10 then install the Windows 10 on VirtualBox.

Before start the installation of Windows 10 on VirtualBox, it is necessary to create a virtual machine first. You can create a virtual machine similar to create a virtual machine for Kali Linux before. Follow the given steps. Step 2: Choose the name for a new virtual machine, You are creating a virtual machine for Windows So put the name Windows Select operating system type is Microsoft Windows.

And in the version section, you can select Windows 10 bit or Windows 10 bit. So you can choose the version as per your requirement. Step 3: In next step, you will select the amount of memory RAM in megabytes to be allocated for a virtual machine. Step 4: It is time to add a virtual hard disk to the new machine. As you know without a hard disk, the computer machine is worthless. So your next task to creates a virtual hard disk for Windows 10 virtual machine.

Step 5: you can choose hard disk file type that you would like to use for the virtual hard disk. Step 6: Storage type on physical hard disk A dynamically allocated hard disk file will only use space on your physical hard disk as it fills up and reached to maximum size, although it will not shrink again automatically when space on it is freed.

In the other hand, a fixed size should be created at its maximum size no matter how much space used by installed operating system. A fixed-size may take a longer time to create and virtual machines give better performance as well.

Step 7: File Location and Size: If you want to change the name of the virtual hard disk, change by typing in the box. Another option folder icon used to select the desired location for saving the virtual hard disk file. Most important part assign the size of the hard drive up to 32 GB[can be extended] will be better for performance. After creating a virtual machine for windows 10 successfully our next step to install windows 10 on Virtualbox.

 
 

 

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There are a lot of practical reasons to set up an OS like Windows 10 in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. VMWare Workstation Player is another option. Parallels has explicitly shipped software that does support x86 VMs on M1 systems. First off, head over to the Windows 10 download page. You can use this tool to create an ISO file locally, or you can follow these additional instructions if you want to download the ISO manually without being forced to grab the tool first.

From the screen that appears, type Windows 10 in the name field. Then from the Version drop-down box, select Windows 8. Next you’ll be prompted to select how much RAM you want to devote to your Windows 10 virtual machine. You’ll be shown a recommended amount of RAM.

You can change it if you want, but I’ve used VirtualBox for several years and have created many virtual machines, and I’ve found its recommendations to be on target. So unless you know what you’re doing and have a very good reason to change it, accept the recommendation. In order to install Windows 10, you’ll have to create a virtual hard drive for installing it.

So from the screen that appears after you’ve selected the amount of RAM, click “Create a virtual hard drive. For the type of drive, you’ll have a choice between one that is a fixed size and one that dynamically allocates space, that is, it grows larger if the operating system needs it.

Your best bet is to choose a fixed size. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Skip to content.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Linux videos. Download Windows 10 ISO. Click on New. Name it whatever you want. Select Create a virtual disk now. Choose VDI. Go for Dynamically allocated. Allocate size for the Windows installation. Add your Windows 10 ISO as optical storage. Go for Choose disk. Click on start to install Windows Follow the regular procedure.

Turn off the Windows VM. Previous Previous. Next Continue. Yes No. Not Helpful 7 Helpful 3. If you have an installation disk, you do not need an ISO image. If you are talking about installing, you need an ISO image or an installation disk. But once it’s installed, you do not need the ISO. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 5. Drag and drop if it is enabled. Most of the time, it might not be enabled for security reasons e. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. If networking, drag and drop to host unless you need it , and all shared folders are disabled.

Not Helpful 7 Helpful 0. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 1. How do you transfer files from your host computer to your Windows 10 guest virtual machine by shared folders? Shared folders show up as a network drive. Select the folder you want to share, and check the Auto-mount and “Make Permanent” boxes for ease of use. Put the stuff you want to share in the folder, and it will show up in the drive in the guest. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered.

Helpful 0 Not Helpful 1. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. Windows 10 working in VirtualBox is not proof that it is compatible with your computer. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 1. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published.

Don’t attempt this on old or low-performance computers. It will slow down your computer severely.

 
 

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Then click “Use the Start Menu instead of the Start screen. Right-click the newly created virtual machine from the left side and select the Settings option.