Let's start by clicking on the 'New' icon.

In the VirtualBox Settings window, you can also change many settings like the Input shortcuts for VirtualBox (when running a VM), the language of the program, the display, network settings for the VMs (even you can modify the network settings for each VM seperatly), add a proxy if you want your VMs to run on a proxy, etc. Just click on the small arrow, select the 'Other' option and browse to the folder where you would like to save your VMs. Under the 'General' tab, you'll have the option to change the 'Default Machine Folder'. To do that, click on 'File' in the top-left corner and select 'Preferences' Start by launching VirtualBox and you should see this window (as you can see, I already have two VMs, both are Windows 7 SP1 圆4 which means 64-bits VMs, and you can see the specifications of the highlighted one)įor the people who have many HDDs or who have a setup composed of one SSD and one HDD, you might want to store your VMs on your HDD and not on your SSD so you won't take useless space.

Every BIOS have a different option to enable this technology, I can help you find out how to enable yours if you need.

Virtualization Technology enabled in the BIOS (otherwise you'll get constant error while trying to load your VM).

iso of the OS or distro you want to create a VM of

I never activated mine since I use them only for short period of time and a black background doesn't bother me.

Here goes And you can use the Windows 8.1 Single Language you have, you don't really need to activate Windows inside a VM.

How to use virtualbox on windows 8