Monday, August 3, 2009

Virtual Box : Installation

Taken from VirtualBox Homesite :

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.


INSTALLATION

I'm going to install VirtualBox on a WindowsXP.

1. Download VirtualBox installation file from here.
2. Double click the file you've just downloaded to install Sun xVM VirtualBox.

I'm going to install SmoothWall(client) inside my WindowsXP(host) machine.
Host refers to the computer/machine where you install VirtualBox inside it.
Client refers to virtual machine/Operating System(OS) that you're going to install inside a VirtualBox host computer/machine.

SmoothWall as Client





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