Installation and configuration of virtual machine - Step 1
Oracle VirtualBox was chosen as the most accessible and most commonly used type 2 hypervisor for the virtual machine (VM) setup demonstration. VirtualBox is available for free for most platforms - Windows, OS X, Linux.
In the demonstration, we will install the Linux distribution Linux Mint (as a guest system) on Windows 10 operating system. This scenario shows a possible first experience of a Windows user with a Linux-based system, where the user has the opportunity to try out the new system without compromising his/her existing operating system.
The VirtualBox application can be downloaded from the project's official website https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads, and an image of the Mint Linux distribution installation DVD can be downloaded from https://linuxmint.com/download.php. Most Linux distributions, MX Linux, Manjaro, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and others can be installed in a similar way as in this demonstration.
After running VirtualBox, a window similar to the one in the following figure will appear. In this window, click on New/New and a window with the basic information about the virtual machine to be created will appear, where we enter the name, the location of the virtual machine files, the type of guest operating system (in this case Linux) and its version/distribution.
The VirtualBox home screen with the basic configuration of the virtual machine.