Running Windows 8.1 in VM with VirtualBoxMicrosoft Student Partner, Andy Tsai

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What is a VM

• VM = Virtual Machine

• You may think of a VM as a virtual computer that runs on your computer. So you may add operating system to your VM and run applications on it. It works just like a real computer.

What is a VM

• Here is a diagram of hierarchical structure of how VMs co-working with a computer.

VirtualBox

• Virtual box is one of the VM softwares offered by oracle. In the rest of the slides, we will use VirtualBox as our solution of building a virtual machine.

• You may find the latest version of the kit here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• Choose the platform of your computer and download the latest version of VirtualBox

Installing VirtualBox

• Run the kit you just downloaded and simply click ‘next’ and ‘yes’ to every checkboxes pumped up. Of course, you may customize the setting but the default setting is good enough for beginner.

• The install wizard will create a shortcut on desktop. Run VirtualBoxand create a VM with Windows 8.1 by following steps.

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RAM allocating

Physical RAM of your computer

Note that we can’t allocate more than half of your physicalRAM to your VM ! Or else, your computer will become really slowbecause the real machine that is running is still your computer !

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Build a virtual driveVirtual drives are treated as files by real computers, yet, treated as hard disks by VMs.The good virtualization property that we use files to represent hard disks enable us to dynamically modify disk sizeeven if the VM is already built up.

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Build a virtual drive

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Build a virtual drive

• The file representing the hard disk

of your VM will be the very file

you create in this step. Initialize

the disk size. However, you may

still larger or smaller the virtual

drive after the VM been created.

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Congratulations !

• Your VM is ready.

• We can’t turn on the

VM yet because it has

no operating system !

Adding operating system

• click

“存放裝置”

We may find that thereis “Win8.1_tutorial.vdi”under SATA interface. Thatis the virtual drive we created

And as you may see, the IDE Interface is still empty.

Adding operating system

• You may think IDE interface as your DVD ReadWrite device. To install operating system, we put a DVD containing operating system installer into our DVD driver. This step is now virtualized as putting an ‘.iso’ file under IDE interface.

Adding operating system

• Choose the .iso file of

windows 8.1 you

downloaded from your

school’s computer center

or any other sources.

Double click your VM to turn it on

We’re done ! Unless…

Why !!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Hyper-v and VirtualBox can’t co-exist!Go to ‘control panel’ -> ‘Programs’ -> ‘turn on/off Windows functionalities’ to unclick ‘Hyper-V’ and reboot

We’re done !