Agreed. Chris' videos might helped a lot Windows (or even Mac?) users to migrate to Linux. He explains things in a way beginners can understand and follow. Although I am using Linux since more than 20 years (really? Now I feel old) I still learn new things watching his channel.
Did you pgp qnd sha verify integrity? Then analyze via "static and dynamic analysis tools? And somehow verify other pros did packet analysis etc on updates? Nobody talks about these huge security loopholes
I've been running Windows in VMs under Ubuntu for the last ten years. It's so much easier to handle Windows in a VM, especially when an update chokes and borks everything. At that point you just restore from backup and a few minutes later you're back in business.
As a long-time Virtualbox user, I must say that this video did not disappoint. Cutting straight to the pertinent information as we've come to expect from your channel, Chris. Providing support at work requires me to use Windows, and this is the solution I use every day (albeit currently with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as the host).
Starts watching video, even though already set up with Windows in Virtualbox. Notices in video that version 6.1 is out. Downloads and installs the deb file. Everything falls apart because version 6.0 was installed from Ubuntu repo and wasn't uninstalled before installing 6.1. Pauses video. Spends hectic 20 minutes purging Virtualbox 6.0, then purges 6.1. Kills all Virtualbox tasks. Re-installs 6.1, re-installs extension pack. Starts Windows. Breathes. Restarts video... Thanks for another entertaining and informative video. :-)
Worth mentioning is that all VMs should have "VMSVGA" or "VBOXSVGA" for their graphics adapter, or they *will not boot* starting with virtualbox 6.1. This includes booting from snapshots and saved states!
kingneutron1 Good to know. I will have to check that when I get back to my computer. I’m still using vbox 5.x and I really want to upgrade after watching this video.
I just followed this guide step-by-step to install Windows 7 on my Linux Mint laptop. Brilliant and simple guide which got everything working for me, even though a few little things have changed since this video was made. Thanks so much Mr. Barnatt.
@@aiden_macleod if your hardware is capable of running a windows vm decently and you set up everything correctly its pretty easy to do work inside, just fullscreen the vm and its almost like youre running on bare metal. obviously if you require a lot of horsepower for whatever work you need to do virtualisation may not be perfect but it still could be done. linus from linus tech tips for example runs all of his computers, including gaming-pc's, virtualized off of a server in his home!
@@alexk1480 That's because Linus has a $10,000 supercomputer in his home. He has top of the line hardware from all his sponsors. Me, I have an i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, GTX 1070 and I'm perfectly capable of running what I want, virtualized or not.
@@aiden_macleod yeah exactly, he has expensive hardware to run multiple vm's. but also regular desktops or laptops with enough ram and cpu cores are capable to run a well working windows vm to do work in
Setting up a virtual box can be a daunting task and I wasn't looking forward to it even though I knew I needed it. You made this much easier for me, even though some steps were slightly different because of newer updates. This was relatively painless, thank you.
VirtualBox - this crystal clear video whilst Linux focused is equally applicable to any OS host, with the guest being any OS including a virtual machine of the host OS for testing and other firewalled purposes . My usage scenario is Mac OS10 host, with a need to be able to run Windows only apps (current and legacy going back to WIndows Xp era). My virtualisation journey began with Parallels on my desktop, but have been blown away by VirtualBox on my MacBook running W10 pro. And it’s FREE.
I remembered when you made a video of virtualbox a few years ago and when you didn't know about guest addition and stuff this video covered a lot of things you can do in virtualbox especially for the people who don't get using the program, the way you explained it is easy to understand and at the right tempo, keep the great work!
I did know about Guest Additions when I made the previous video -- there were notes in the video description about it -- but as always, I had to decide what to include and not include. I can never cover everything. In retrospect, I should have mentioned it in the last video.
Oddly enough I did this on my own before the video was released. I placed it within the MXLinux OS. My machine, while fairly powerful, not really up to today's standards. 4Cores &16 GB RAM. The installation of VB was painless. The installation of Win 10 was perfect. I was lucky I had an extra product code lying around. The whole experience is very enjoyable. WIN 10 runs smoothly. I gave it 12 GB of RAM and kept 4 GB for MXLinux. I've taken to using Linux more than Windows but 4 GB RAM in Linux is more than enough. I love this arrangement and for those watching this video...TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!
Thank you, sir. Right as I've just ordered a fresh new laptop with plans for a win7 VM on it. I never understood why USB wouldn't work on my dabbling with VMs before, so this was just what I needed.
Brilliant video....I have tried to do a lot of OS "emulation" using VMWare and Windows and have had mixed results. Never thought of doing it the other way round using a different host OS and running Windows through it. Another easy to follow tutorial, nice one CB
When I need to run software that is only available for Windows I find that spinning up a Windows vm is better than trying to use Wine. It seems to be more stable, and I prefer the idea of keeping Microsoft locked in a box rather than giving it access to my Linux system through Wine.
I'd go with LibreOffice native in Linux unless people experience problems with MS Word or Excel files. As already mentioned by SeanBZA, WinE might be less of a hassle than VirtualBox to run Windows software.
SeanBZA yes Mr SeanBZA wine will run Office on Linux as well. But some times i just want to run like windows 98 instead. So long ago it was full of virus 😆 on windows 98
In my humble opinion, one of your finest videos! I'm definitely bookmarking this to keep it handy to share with others as well. You've managed to cover a couple of items that I have missed attempting to get past in Linux Mint prior to your nicely detailed training video!
Congratulations Chris your explanations are just fantastic, just unbelievable the domain and security that you demonstrate when making your videos !!!!! congratulations continue to bring excellent quality content to TH-cam !!!
Thank you so much, I have been searching a long time for a video like this. I felt that virtual machines were useless because of not having access to properly functioning shared folders, USB drives and printers. You have now changed the game for me.
A lot of info and ideas here, its great to see that there now exists "simple" ways to communicate between 2 operating systems while 1 is running in virtual box, sharing docs and drives etc. i take my hat off to you, i bet you could explain anything.
Yes. Thank you for the sudo usermod tip. Just yesterday, I was trying to get my W10-64 vm (on Mint host) to read a USB stick. Couldn't do it. Your example was exactly what I needed.
Hi Chris, I don't comment very often although I avidly watch all your videos. Having used Mint from a live iso on and off for a number of years, I have finally taken the plunge and ditched Windows when I built my latest PC. This tutorial has been invaluable in allowing me to run the, surprisingly few, programs I have not found a Linux replacement for. I used VB 7 and Win 10. Although VB7 looks not exactly like the version you were using, all the bits are there, just maybe not where they used to be, but it all installed perfectly and first time, thanks to you!
Excellent, you cover all the important and necessary tweaks. I've been a VMware user in the past but their licensing means the free-to-use product is more limited whereas VirtualBox now seems to allow all features for personal use. I may finally have my dev-system run windows on linux rather than linux on windows.
Chris could had mentioned the fact that you can also freeze the content of a virtual machine. You freeze (or suspend?) it in virtual box while Windows is running and terminate VirtualBox. Restarting VB it picks up right where you left it. I find this to be a very handy feature. There should also be a follow up video. After installing Windows in VirtualBox get VirtualBox for this Windows itself to install Linux in it. In this Linux in a VB in Windows itself in a VB in Linux, install an Amiga emulator in which you install a Commodore 64 emulator. ;-)
This video was extremely helpful to me in getting Windows running on my virtual machine under Linux, thereby causing me to remember why I left Windows in the first place.
Brilliant video CJB, absolutely first-rate. I've done all these things over the years, but not for awhile...so your video was VERY helpful. I just created a new KDE-based dev machine, and need to be able to run some Adobe software--so the part about the shared folders was awesome. Thanks so much for making this video. It saved me a lot of time!
Extremely informative video. I've played with Windows VMs in Linux and never got it quite right. But next time I do it, I will head to your page and rewatch this video first.
"let's celebrate by going back into full-screen mode here in windows..." love it, that was a very entertaining and helpful video, thank you very much!!
Great, well done video, but in 1998 I decided that I would to as Windows free as I can, and with progress of linux/open source it has become easier every day.
Can I just say, you earned a subscriber. I spent the entire evening scratching my head how to use other virtual machines and I really couldn't figure out how to get any of them running smoothly. I knew of VB seeing my boyfriend use it on MACos but I wasn't entirely sure how to install it properly with extensions onto Mint. I didn't want to set up another partition and go about it the traditional way as I only want to install a few dos and retro games on a burner laptop. Other videos were just so dated, or so chopped that I couldn't understand where I was going wrong. This video was a bloody lifesaver. So stupidly easy to follow that I'm nearly positive that even someone with 0 experience operating and running linux could of done it. Cheers mate. I look forward to future content.
I had the same on one of my machines. Then I had the bright idea to play around with Hyper-V. Not only couldn't I get it to work, but it stopped Virtualbox from running!
How about installing Windows on a Virtual Linux Machine running on a Windows machine.:D VirtualBox is great. I'm using it to run Win2K on my Win10 machine. It's fast as hell and it's nice to see the old task manager in in Win2K saying only 60 Mb is used by Windows.... compared to 1.9 Gb for Win10. Dafug happened LOL.
Caveat: If Windows asks you to reboot the system after installing an application or an update, do not shut down. A number of applications and updates do differentiate between a restart and a shut down. Thus, if you shut down, changes will not take effect. Other than that, great video, my good sir!
Heads up for everyone. At 14:36 go with that Settings / Display / Graphics Controller / VBoxVGA I can't tell you how many problems and hours going with the default VMSVGA has caused me. In an Arch build, I couldn't get lightdm or lxdm login managers to work and just tonight I chanced on that being the fault / problem / culprit! EDIT - Oh, and there's more! It's always a good idea after making a base-build of Arch ('done the Arch way'), to clone it. Then you can go with xfce4, Mate, OpenBox etc. Well, of course I name it Arch base clone 1, ditto clone 2 and then when I went back and renamed one of them Arch xfce, VBox took it on its own to revert to VMSVGA and didn't even notify me and I had forgotten that you get a totally black screen with a tiny white underline upper-left-ish!
After years switching from both systems and struggling to play around with different softwares for my work/dev (on data) needs. I found the correct key words to be googlelized and then came your tuto. You've just released tons of frustations... thank you so much. From a Froggy
Thanks. That was a great tutorial for a newbie. I have successfully set up my windows 10 installation and managed to download iCue and get my RGB fans all working, brilliant!
i love using this type of setup, it's really the only way i trust using windows. since windows is not as secure i only use the virtualbox for the necessary apps from when needed. but everything else i use in linux. I never surf the web in windows i don't think its secure enough at all.
I mentioned when you announced this video that I had used VirtualBox in order to run a specific program back in the day, but it was a very simple setup. While I no longer need to do that, I anticipate I will need to have Windows running in VirtualBox(I'd prefer to avoid dual booting, but it's an option as well) for a more complex task including accessing peripherals and such. So my knowledge and experience with VirtualBox was very limited, and I said I expected to learn a thing or five from this video. That is indeed the case here. This video likely saved me several headaches in the future and I will be referring to it when I have to actually set it up. Very nice tutorial, and thank you.
Very nice video :) I honestly prefer KVM and Qemu when it comes to virtual machines but probably a bit away from beginning with VMs and Virtualbox is definitely the way to go when you just start :) Happy midweek and keep it up the great job
Save this video a couple of days after you made it. Finally built a linux machine and applied this virtual box application to the letter. Everything turned out just as you said. GREAT TUTORIAL.!!!
Very helpful even if 3 years old. VirtualBox 7 has made it a bit easier, particularly with USB support. The interface has moved actions around a little, but this video helped me make sure I did all I needed to do, and the only problem was finding where. Thank you.
Very helpful video. Thank you. I've been trying Linux Mint in a dual-boot setup for about 6 weeks, and I really love it. Now having VirtualBox with Windows 10 working for the few programs I use, I'm ready to wipe my original setup and go with just Linux Mint and not dual-boot any longer. Thank you for your step by step video to make this possible.
Wow, this is a great tutorial! I've been using VirtualBox for quite a while but didn't know how to configure the last few things you showed. This is a great way to help Win 7 users migrate to Linux. I think Mint is a great option, and there are some other distros that are great for newcomers as well. One thing I have heard about Windows 10 is that you can basically get it for free now. Microsoft just does not care about making money off of individual licenses anymore. Apparently, their "free upgrade to Windows 10" never ended for Win 7 and Win 8.1. This means you could just pirate Win 7, and install a "legal" copy of Win 10. You can also apparently sometimes use a Win 7 product key to activate Win 10 for some reason. There are also tons of sketchy websites where you can buy cheap recycled product keys. And of course, you could just never activate it; you just wouldn't be able to change the theme or wallpaper and stuff like that. It's quite the strange.
If people only knew the power of the Virtualbox. You can do so much with it especially if you know how to install it on Ubuntu(OS) which gets tricky and sometimes confusing when installing; many companies give money to Ubunu including Amazon who has exclusive access so their on the front line when it comes to fresh ideas from new young programmers ( other people who code(program) that dont know that everything they type is being studied ) or used as an idea. Anyway VirtualBox can made to do anything as long as Oracle maintains updates and programmers upgrade efficiently. Ubuntu just makes it so hard to install it; we believe this is because they want to install it on Windows instead. Also PaaS can be achieved using the command line tools for VirtualBox which means that some feel threatened by its potential GUI capability.
Just wanted to say thank you for doing this video, it was very helpful whilst getting virtualbox set up. I bought a sat nav that has included 'map updates' without even considering the software wouldn't work with Linux. Thanks to the video, I have been able to get the sat nav updated and will hopefully now be able to travel to meet my 8 week old granddaughter for the first time (covid 19 lockdown has prevented this up until now). Thank you very much, I'm extremely grateful for the easy to follow and informative video.
An interesting and informative presentation Chris.I'm a win 7 user (because I hate 10) and this maybe the work around for me to continue using the copy I paid good money for. Thanks. Look forward to the next one. :-)
Yes. I would do that except for the fact that I did not buy a retail copy when it was $70.00 USD. Oh how I wish I had gotten it. I just run windows 7 on an old OEM PC disconnected from all the World Wide Malware.
@@donaldmarks8707 I don't do piracy, even if Microsoft is wrong. I want to run linux and run the windows apps with my OEM copy in a VM. The only issue is that the host is an old intel celeron 900, and modern tasks are just too resource heavy. If it were are core 2 duo, I could do it. I have plans to upgrade it. If all else fails, I will convert it into a virtual hard disk to preserve this historical software, for years to come...
@@donaldmarks8707 They haven't thrown it away. The support has ended, just like every Windows edition before it, hardly a surprise. If you need more copies of W7 all you have to do is buy W10 Pro, and exercise your downgrade rights, just like every edition of Windows...
That crazy Mr. Scissors! Editing text at random! What will he do next?! 😂 Seriously, though -- excellent tutorial on setting up Virtual box. This will certainly come in handy -- thanks!
Another excellent workshop. Just set mine up. Mint VM on win10 though. Much preferred this to dual booting. Really handy to have Linux capabilities on my Win PC. I used VB 7.0 though. On my legacy bios there was no option for virtualisation - bit I did notice hyperthreading wasn't turned on so I took the opportunity to put that right 👍
I have been hearing about linux for some days, but it is only Chris who has made my mind to do the transition from windows to linux. A huge fan, Chris!
I hope this helps people with the transition from Windows to Linux, knowing that when moving from Win to Linux that you can still have Win if you get stuck with Linux apps or prefer a particular Win app that you have it at your fingertips could be the push to Linux that people need. I went the other route by running the few Windows applications I do need within the Wine environment, although if needed I could run a VM on my server
Thank you for this, it was explained very well, could be Very useful for a firend who runs a dual boot system atm as she has a few progs that Still require Windows usage,
Hi Chris, I was looking to do exactly this for an SDR project (uplink / downlink to the QO-100 satellite) - run Windows on a Mint machine with USB pass-through. Got it working with no hitches and just wanted to say thank you for putting this together!
Excellent video, thanks again! 10:29 Yes, making all the settings to be only mildly shafted in stead of being taken without any lubricants makes me feel that way too.
Not sure if it happens with Linux host, but with Win host designating an USB drive causes it to be taken from the host by force, so one needs to be sure the drive ain't doing anything.
Thank you Chris. For small/medium business use, you might want to consider a video on doing a similar operation using Proxmox VE which can be run on a server and run as a service. "Virtualize everything"! Running Windows 10 on Proxmox VE which can then be accessed by RDP.
If you want to game in Windows in a virtual machine on Linux, then you should set up PCIe-passthrough. It does require a second graphics card though because both AMD and Nvidia refuse to give us SR-IOV on the gaming cards, we need to pay more to get that privilege.
@@ExplainingComputers You should do a video on setting up PCIe-passthrough. People who have integrated graphics can do their Windows gaming that way without dual-booting.
Still works in June 2021. I had to use the Software Manager rather than the website, but it works. Very helpful, very useful, very clearly explained. Thank you!
@@ndumisoradebe5256 Some of the USB devices had to be turned off in setting to work as they were supposed to work. I don't understand why, but removed the checkmark and gave it a try and got my mouse and keyboard functioning again after they didn't work initially. Also I was not able to use the downloaded files from VirtualBox. I had to use the Software Manager. I am using Mint Cinnamon 20.1. I can use Windows 10 and Linux Mint side by side or full screen... Love it!
@@coenlife I'm also using Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon. I'm stuck after installing Windows 10. When I open the windows 10 it says "Kernel Driver not installed”. I tried reinstalling the virtualbox but it failed to reinstall. I also tried uninstalling it using the terminal, but it says "Virtualbox not installed so cannot remove", yet it's still appears on the list of my installed programs. I rebooted and disabled Secure Boot as some say this might be the cause but when I turn on the laptop the screen just goes black. I am new on Linux. I only started using it Saturday. I'm now forced to go back to Windows 10 for study purposes.
To improve performance, also use 3D acceleration and a 256MB video memory for the display and use bridged networking. 3D acceleration might not work with AMD Vega graphics. It works on my Intel laptop, but it garbles the display on my AMD Ryzen 3 2200G. You can also install the extension pack by simply double clicking it.
I love your channel and somehow missed this video. It was recommended as I was going through TH-cam vids on VM installation. I've already given you a thumbs up before watching :)
I haven't really used windows for anything in several years. I was glad to see you had created a video on how to set up Virtual Box for Linux Mint. I use Linux Mint 19.3 and wanted to have a good idea how to set up VB on it. My interest with anything Windows is for Software Defined Radio or SDR. I have a program called SDR# that runs off a Windows environment along with its respective addons needed to use the SDR Dongle as a receiver for all things amateur radio. I'll be using Windows 7 because most of the SDR software have less issues with 7 than with 10. Either way I think I'm in a win win situation now because of your set video. Thanks CJB for the informative video!
I have an old HP photo printer that only works in Windows XP. I just found the solution, no more dragging the old XP box out of storage. I'll use virtual box.
I also use Virtualbox on Linux with an XP VM to support my legacy printers. Contrary to Christopher's advice, I have found that I like to just close my XP VM - and save its machine state, as this helps it start back up faster than shutting it down and then booting it again.
Haha, that must have been long ago! Nowadays you can't install Windows 95 on Virtualbox or directly on any modern 64-bit computers. It crashes directly after install with a memory protection error on all modern computers with a clock higher than 2.1GHz and the video drivers are very problematical too (only 640 x 480). You best chance is to download a vdi with a community corrected Windows 95. The same is true for 98 and ME.
I'm tempted not to buy a Windows licence the next time I build a desktop PC. Windows 10 does not need activation to work. I'm noticing that I need proprietary software less and less as I get older. A virtual machine for Word, Excel, iTunes and Tableau would work until I am done working and Apple makes it possible to add files to iPhones without Mac/Windows (or I stop using iPhones). Right now, I have Arch Linux with MATE running in VirtualBox. I haven't done much else with it, but getting Arch to run is a bit of an accomplishment.
Thank you for this, Christopher! This was incredibly useful even 4 years later and with Version 7 of VirtualBox! With Windows 10 EOL now on the horizon I refuse to buy a new computer just to run Windows 11. Having played with Pi's for a long time I decided to jump to Linux Mint. As a ham operator (KC7ZDM) I do have some applications I just can't easily find equivalents for in Linux (yet) and VirtualBox seemed like the best way to run them. I now have Windows 10 running in Mint! I really appreciated your humour as well! Cheers!
Very nice, as usual! You always knock your video subjects "out of the park". I'm running FerenOS Jan, 2020 Snapshot and will setup Windows 10 Pro for which I have a valid product key from when I was running Windows 7 Pro in the VBox VM of Windows 10 Pro. I have moved to Linux as the default OS on my main PC and have decided that if I want to run Windows for any reason, I'll use the option you most elegantly portrayed in this video.
This is indeed my kind of video. I loved it so much, it's encouraged me to embolden myself and step forward with the STOOPIDEST question I can think of: Presumably, when writing in Linux's Writer, having done all you have done in this video, you can then save the document to the Windows® drive, and vice versa - writing in Microsoft® Word® on your virtual machine, you can save to your Linux machine, should you need to? I'm only using Word as an example, I use a lot of music-related recording software, like Reaper, and if I boot reaper on a virtual drive and on the linux drive, I want to know, if possible, if you can access a file you've copied to your virtual drive and save it on the Linux one, and vice versa. I want to be able to use files that I've already created under Windows®. I can never explain things succinctly, sorry. x
For files on the shared folder, that sort of thing certainly works for me, e,g. with Writer and Word or Calc and Excel. But I think that is the only local disc space that both the host and guest OS can see at the same time.
Briliant. Thanks to this video, I have got a long way with running a virtual machine, which I have previously regarded as an Arcane Mystery, not for the likes of me. My version of VirtualBox is 7.0.4 and I'm running it on the Thinkpad T420 I use for Adventures in Computing. One difference I see with 7.x is in installing Guest Additions. Your version offers a choice of physical drive or ISO. 7.0.4 doesn't offer that, only having an option for CD, but there is another command (something like "Load Guest Additions CD") which slightly counterintuitively means "tell the machine to look for the ISO in the D: drive." That doesn't work, but I looked in Explorer for something that looked like the right file, and clicky-wickied, and it worked. I got a slight hiccup with USB. My venerable machine only has USB 2, so I clicked the radio button for USB 2 controller, and that didn't work: it does work if I tell it to enable the USB 3.0 controller which, as a matter of fact, I don't have. idk, but I can see a USB drive now. My only problem left is getting iTunes to see the WiFi network rather than the virtualised connection, so I can hook it up to Airplay. This is a pretty niche requirement, and thanks to you I feel confident in trying to solve it. I spent a career in tertiary level teaching, some of it fluffy stuff, some of it with its own technicalities. I know absolutely first-rate exposition of difficult material when I see it, and you're a master. Just the right amount of PowerPoint and graphics--in this, I was actually grateful for having the main points all on one slide. Brilliant.
@@ExplainingComputers Just to follow up on one of my failures. I wanted to run iTunes in Windows, using Airplay. To do that, iTunes has to see the WiFi adapter with its own beady little eyes, apparently. This is not possible with the host computer's internal WiFi adapter, because VirtualBox virtualizes it, which is not good enough for iTunes (picky). The answer seems to be to use an external USB dongle in the VM. I happened to have an ancient WiFi n adapter; after a certain amount of fluffing around with switches and getting the sequences of start-ups right, I got the external adapter visible in Windows, and iTunes found my Airport Express. So, finally, I could listen to Andras Schiff playing Bach over my monitors attached to an Airport Express, while browsing the web in Firefox in Linux Mint. Tomorrow, I see if iTunes can find my iPhone when plugged in. (All the choices which have brought me to this situation have been made rationally, but the complications can make you wonder.)
good tutorial. why do you keep shutting down Windows? freezing ("save machine state") a VM is quicker and works very well. and saves everything you were working on the VM
I would not personally use freeze when changing virtual machine settings. Freezing is fine for final use, not for setup. Also, frozen machines may hang on to resources (like USB drives).
Okay, well, out of the frying pan into a higher-up frying pan. I had partitioned an old Windows 7 laptop, installed Kubuntu on the second partition, and then configured VirtualBox to hog-up half of the Kubuntu partition and installed Windows XP inside of that. I'll bet I could fit Windows 98 in as well. However, it occurs to me that this laptop is already eight years old, and I'll need to replace it soon. My software installed nicely into the Windows XP virtual system, but it doesn't seem to be able to load my data - well, anything newer than six months old (which would be a LOT of work recovering - albeit less than recovering 50 years of data). The only file that loads is all lower-case filename, so that seems a bit odd. None of the upper-case files will load. There are several more pieces of old software to load, but those have never given me issues. I'm glad you mentioned about Guest Additions, shared folders, shared clipboard and USB support, or this wouldn't have gone well. So, many thanks for this particular tutorial. It worked.
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This is how windows is meant to be used...
In a window
Not signing up in the windows I have tried many times
I have ubuntu 20.04 please tell me sir what version to install here 2:52 ?
@Hand Grabbing Fruits They mean, not signing a contract to hand over your first-born son with every third update
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"I almost lost the will to live during that installation." - Christopher Barnatt
I think Microsoft should put this quote in their marketing.
oh indeed, I fell out of my chair laughing at that one. priceless. :D
I wholeheartedly agree with Christopher. 😁 Especially with the current state of the Windows OS and the updates!
Indeed. Tried just today. Had to deny like 20 different data sharing settings.
im only gonna use windows vm for schoolwork
Another nice video, Chris. Because of this channel, I've been using Linux Mint for a year and I've had a nice experience with it. Thank you, sir.
Great to hear.
Agreed. Chris' videos might helped a lot Windows (or even Mac?) users to migrate to Linux. He explains things in a way beginners can understand and follow. Although I am using Linux since more than 20 years (really? Now I feel old) I still learn new things watching his channel.
Did you pgp qnd sha verify integrity? Then analyze via "static and dynamic analysis tools? And somehow verify other pros did packet analysis etc on updates? Nobody talks about these huge security loopholes
Mint and others have had nefarious code injected at the repositories
@@SmedleyButler1 I would like to know more about this. Could you elaborate?
I've been running Windows in VMs under Ubuntu for the last ten years. It's so much easier to handle Windows in a VM, especially when an update chokes and borks everything. At that point you just restore from backup and a few minutes later you're back in business.
As a long-time Virtualbox user, I must say that this video did not disappoint. Cutting straight to the pertinent information as we've come to expect from your channel, Chris. Providing support at work requires me to use Windows, and this is the solution I use every day (albeit currently with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as the host).
Starts watching video, even though already set up with Windows in Virtualbox.
Notices in video that version 6.1 is out. Downloads and installs the deb file.
Everything falls apart because version 6.0 was installed from Ubuntu repo and wasn't uninstalled before installing 6.1.
Pauses video.
Spends hectic 20 minutes purging Virtualbox 6.0, then purges 6.1. Kills all Virtualbox tasks. Re-installs 6.1, re-installs extension pack. Starts Windows.
Breathes.
Restarts video...
Thanks for another entertaining and informative video. :-)
Worth mentioning is that all VMs should have "VMSVGA" or "VBOXSVGA" for their graphics adapter, or they *will not boot* starting with virtualbox 6.1. This includes booting from snapshots and saved states!
kingneutron1
Good to know. I will have to check that when I get back to my computer. I’m still using vbox 5.x and I really want to upgrade after watching this video.
This really is one of the simplest and nicest guides out there. You should be commended sir.
Thanks.
I just followed this guide step-by-step to install Windows 7 on my Linux Mint laptop. Brilliant and simple guide which got everything working for me, even though a few little things have changed since this video was made. Thanks so much Mr. Barnatt.
Chris, that was the best VB tutorial I've ever seen thanks so much. Great work as always.
Thanks. :)
I like the way you explain all this tutorial... Very clear and straight to the point. Greetings from Romania(ex-Roumania)
this is great for people that still run win7 and think of switching to linux but need to use some windows only programms!
VMWare is really just a novelty. I wouldn't seriously run it to do anything productive, as I can be more productive in a non-virtual session.
@@aiden_macleod if your hardware is capable of running a windows vm decently and you set up everything correctly its pretty easy to do work inside, just fullscreen the vm and its almost like youre running on bare metal. obviously if you require a lot of horsepower for whatever work you need to do virtualisation may not be perfect but it still could be done. linus from linus tech tips for example runs all of his computers, including gaming-pc's, virtualized off of a server in his home!
@@alexk1480 That's because Linus has a $10,000 supercomputer in his home. He has top of the line hardware from all his sponsors.
Me, I have an i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, GTX 1070 and I'm perfectly capable of running what I want, virtualized or not.
@@aiden_macleod yeah exactly, he has expensive hardware to run multiple vm's. but also regular desktops or laptops with enough ram and cpu cores are capable to run a well working windows vm to do work in
@@aiden_macleod I have i3 CPU, 4GB RAM. Too low, but I can still do virtualization.
This could be very helpful in running Windows applications while switching to Linux as a primary OS.
Certainly my use for it! :)
That’s how I use it too. Eventually I hope to migrate away from Microsoft completely, but there are still a couple of sticking points.
It's very very very helpfull. Thank E.C.
Written by Mr Scissors? Surely that would be cut out (edited) by Mr Scissors. Another superb video Chris, thank you.
Best Video for a Windows-User planning moving to Linux, but still needs some Stuff from Windows.
Setting up a virtual box can be a daunting task and I wasn't looking forward to it even though I knew I needed it. You made this much easier for me, even though some steps were slightly different because of newer updates. This was relatively painless, thank you.
One of the best video to setup a perfect Windows Virtual Machine.
EC Sundays never disappoints. Thank you for making these videos.
VirtualBox - this crystal clear video whilst Linux focused is equally applicable to any OS host, with the guest being any OS including a virtual machine of the host OS for testing and other firewalled purposes . My usage scenario is Mac OS10 host, with a need to be able to run Windows only apps (current and legacy going back to WIndows Xp era). My virtualisation journey began with Parallels on my desktop, but have been blown away by VirtualBox on my MacBook running W10 pro. And it’s FREE.
I remembered when you made a video of virtualbox a few years ago and when you didn't know about guest addition and stuff
this video covered a lot of things you can do in virtualbox especially for the people who don't get using the program, the way you explained it is easy to understand and at the right tempo, keep the great work!
I did know about Guest Additions when I made the previous video -- there were notes in the video description about it -- but as always, I had to decide what to include and not include. I can never cover everything. In retrospect, I should have mentioned it in the last video.
@@ExplainingComputers I like this 20 min video more than the previous short version.
SATA ANDAGII
Oddly enough I did this on my own before the video was released. I placed it within the MXLinux OS. My machine, while fairly powerful, not really up to today's standards. 4Cores &16 GB RAM. The installation of VB was painless. The installation of Win 10 was perfect. I was lucky I had an extra product code lying around. The whole experience is very enjoyable. WIN 10 runs smoothly. I gave it 12 GB of RAM and kept 4 GB for MXLinux. I've taken to using Linux more than Windows but 4 GB RAM in Linux is more than enough. I love this arrangement and for those watching this video...TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!
Thank you, sir. Right as I've just ordered a fresh new laptop with plans for a win7 VM on it. I never understood why USB wouldn't work on my dabbling with VMs before, so this was just what I needed.
Brilliant video....I have tried to do a lot of OS "emulation" using VMWare and Windows and have had mixed results. Never thought of doing it the other way round using a different host OS and running Windows through it. Another easy to follow tutorial, nice one CB
Same here. Great video 👍 Thanks, Chris
yes that would be an alternative way for the common applications such as Microsoft office to running on windows 10 box, thanks Mr. Barnatt...
Wine will run quite a few versions of Office quite well, but you always have issues with mail, simply because it is so intertwined with the OS itself.
When I need to run software that is only available for Windows I find that spinning up a Windows vm is better than trying to use Wine. It seems to be more stable, and I prefer the idea of keeping Microsoft locked in a box rather than giving it access to my Linux system through Wine.
I'd go with LibreOffice native in Linux unless people experience problems with MS Word or Excel files. As already mentioned by SeanBZA,
WinE might be less of a hassle than VirtualBox to run Windows software.
SeanBZA yes Mr SeanBZA wine will run Office on Linux as well. But some times i just want to run like windows 98 instead. So long ago it was full of virus 😆 on windows 98
J Kane it is good idea Mr J Kane. To keep Office lock out. Cause some times malware comes up when we are not upgrade the Office
In my humble opinion, one of your finest videos! I'm definitely bookmarking this to keep it handy to share with others as well. You've managed to cover a couple of items that I have missed attempting to get past in Linux Mint prior to your nicely detailed training video!
Thanks Dean, most appreciated.
Congratulations Chris your explanations are just fantastic, just unbelievable the domain and security that you demonstrate when making your videos !!!!! congratulations continue to bring excellent quality content to TH-cam !!!
Thank you so much, I have been searching a long time for a video like this. I felt that virtual machines were useless because of not having access to properly functioning shared folders, USB drives and printers. You have now changed the game for me.
Glad I could help. :)
Brexit or not, you will always remain my main source of information technology ideas. Thanks a lot, Chris
A lot of info and ideas here, its great to see that there now exists "simple" ways to communicate between 2 operating systems while 1 is running in virtual box, sharing docs and drives etc.
i take my hat off to you, i bet you could explain anything.
Thankyou for that USB device support thing.....this is why I love this channel, every time i learn something new.
Totally agree. Took me forever to figure that one out.
@@waynerobarge8543 yes...
Me too!
Yes. Thank you for the sudo usermod tip. Just yesterday, I was trying to get my W10-64 vm (on Mint host) to read a USB stick. Couldn't do it. Your example was exactly what I needed.
Hi Chris, I don't comment very often although I avidly watch all your videos. Having used Mint from a live iso on and off for a number of years, I have finally taken the plunge and ditched Windows when I built my latest PC. This tutorial has been invaluable in allowing me to run the, surprisingly few, programs I have not found a Linux replacement for. I used VB 7 and Win 10. Although VB7 looks not exactly like the version you were using, all the bits are there, just maybe not where they used to be, but it all installed perfectly and first time, thanks to you!
Thanks for watching, and great to hear of your success. :)
Excellent, you cover all the important and necessary tweaks. I've been a VMware user in the past but their licensing means the free-to-use product is more limited whereas VirtualBox now seems to allow all features for personal use. I may finally have my dev-system run windows on linux rather than linux on windows.
Very nice, clear and concise instructions. Even after 4 years and VirtualBox 7.0.20.
Chris could had mentioned the fact that you can also freeze the content of a virtual machine. You freeze (or suspend?) it in virtual box while Windows is running and terminate VirtualBox. Restarting VB it picks up right where you left it. I find this to be a very handy feature.
There should also be a follow up video. After installing Windows in VirtualBox get VirtualBox for this Windows itself to install Linux in it. In this Linux in a VB in Windows itself in a VB in Linux, install an Amiga emulator in which you install a Commodore 64 emulator. ;-)
This video was extremely helpful to me in getting Windows running on my virtual machine under Linux, thereby causing me to remember why I left Windows in the first place.
:)
Brilliant video CJB, absolutely first-rate. I've done all these things over the years, but not for awhile...so your video was VERY helpful. I just created a new KDE-based dev machine, and need to be able to run some Adobe software--so the part about the shared folders was awesome. Thanks so much for making this video. It saved me a lot of time!
I'm glad this was helpful.
Brilliant. I got this working in Zorin 16 and now I can install a couple of windows programs that don't work in WINE. Well explained.
i use virtualbox and i have learn something, how to configure the usb drivers for windows.
continue with these awesome videos!!!
thank you very much.
Extremely informative video. I've played with Windows VMs in Linux and never got it quite right. But next time I do it, I will head to your page and rewatch this video first.
Had to laugh at the repeated use of the word 'hopefully' when installing Windows drivers. Very retro.
Cause .. Well you better cross ur fingers when installing those
Plug and pray?
@@chrwl007 lmao true
"let's celebrate by going back into full-screen mode here in windows..." love it, that was a very entertaining and helpful video, thank you very much!!
Great, well done video, but in 1998 I decided that I would to as Windows free as I can, and with progress of linux/open source it has become easier every day.
Can I just say, you earned a subscriber.
I spent the entire evening scratching my head how to use other virtual machines and I really couldn't figure out how to get any of them running smoothly. I knew of VB seeing my boyfriend use it on MACos but I wasn't entirely sure how to install it properly with extensions onto Mint. I didn't want to set up another partition and go about it the
traditional way as I only want to install a few dos and retro games on a burner laptop. Other videos were just so dated, or so chopped that I couldn't understand where I was going wrong.
This video was a bloody lifesaver. So stupidly easy to follow that I'm nearly positive that even someone with 0 experience operating and running linux could of done it.
Cheers mate. I look forward to future content.
Great to hear this -- welcome aboard! :)
Thank you so much. I've never seen a tutorial that worked so perfectly like this !
Great to hear!
Hello from the future! This video was invaluable when I wanted to test out a virtual machine for running Windows as a test. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
And there's me watching this video on a Linux Mint install within virtual box installed on a Windows 10 machine
Cool.
J*ker which the win10 machine is a vm on Mac
I had the same on one of my machines. Then I had the bright idea to play around with Hyper-V. Not only couldn't I get it to work, but it stopped Virtualbox from running!
dalriada842 I made a win10 vm on mac to play Windows only games
How about installing Windows on a Virtual Linux Machine running on a Windows machine.:D
VirtualBox is great. I'm using it to run Win2K on my Win10 machine. It's fast as hell and it's nice to see the old task manager in in Win2K saying only 60 Mb is used by Windows.... compared to 1.9 Gb for Win10.
Dafug happened LOL.
Caveat: If Windows asks you to reboot the system after installing an application or an update, do not shut down. A number of applications and updates do differentiate between a restart and a shut down. Thus, if you shut down, changes will not take effect.
Other than that, great video, my good sir!
A shut-down and restart will always implement the same change as a reboot! :)
Heads up for everyone. At 14:36 go with that Settings / Display / Graphics Controller / VBoxVGA I can't tell you how many problems and hours going with the default VMSVGA has caused me. In an Arch build, I couldn't get lightdm or lxdm login managers to work and just tonight I chanced on that being the fault / problem / culprit!
EDIT - Oh, and there's more! It's always a good idea after making a base-build of Arch ('done the Arch way'), to clone it. Then you can go with xfce4, Mate, OpenBox etc. Well, of course I name it Arch base clone 1, ditto clone 2 and then when I went back and renamed one of them Arch xfce, VBox took it on its own to revert to VMSVGA and didn't even notify me and I had forgotten that you get a totally black screen with a tiny white underline upper-left-ish!
After years switching from both systems and struggling to play around with different softwares for my work/dev (on data) needs. I found the correct key words to be googlelized and then came your tuto. You've just released tons of frustations... thank you so much. From a Froggy
Glad to help!
Very easy yet very helpful video explained in simple way. Thank you 😀
Thanks. That was a great tutorial for a newbie. I have successfully set up my windows 10 installation and managed to download iCue and get my RGB fans all working, brilliant!
Great to hear!
i love using this type of setup, it's really the only way i trust using windows. since windows is not as secure i only use the virtualbox for the necessary apps from when needed. but everything else i use in linux. I never surf the web in windows i don't think its secure enough at all.
I mentioned when you announced this video that I had used VirtualBox in order to run a specific program back in the day, but it was a very simple setup. While I no longer need to do that, I anticipate I will need to have Windows running in VirtualBox(I'd prefer to avoid dual booting, but it's an option as well) for a more complex task including accessing peripherals and such. So my knowledge and experience with VirtualBox was very limited, and I said I expected to learn a thing or five from this video. That is indeed the case here. This video likely saved me several headaches in the future and I will be referring to it when I have to actually set it up. Very nice tutorial, and thank you.
It is not necessary to reboot computer when adding user to a grupo (vboxusers), just logout and login is more than enough
True.
Or kill -9 -1
That makes sense since you're only changing the user. I was thinking, "just run 'shutdown -r' to reboot."
@@CalebHawn or you can simply run reboot
@@rickbhattacharya2334 Oh, is that a separate command? I never knew that; thanks!
best quick vid on adding the extras to virtual box
Very nice video :)
I honestly prefer KVM and Qemu when it comes to virtual machines but probably a bit away from beginning with VMs and Virtualbox is definitely the way to go when you just start :)
Happy midweek and keep it up the great job
Save this video a couple of days after you made it. Finally built a linux machine and applied this virtual box application to the letter. Everything turned out just as you said. GREAT TUTORIAL.!!!
Great to hear!
Your videos are very informative. Always a pleasure to learn.
Very helpful even if 3 years old. VirtualBox 7 has made it a bit easier, particularly with USB support. The interface has moved actions around a little, but this video helped me make sure I did all I needed to do, and the only problem was finding where. Thank you.
I just want to thank you very much! Fantastic tutorial ! Cheers !
Very helpful video. Thank you. I've been trying Linux Mint in a dual-boot setup for about 6 weeks, and I really love it. Now having VirtualBox with Windows 10 working for the few programs I use, I'm ready to wipe my original setup and go with just Linux Mint and not dual-boot any longer. Thank you for your step by step video to make this possible.
Wow, a great video to absorb and use. Extremely useful. 👍👍
Wow, this is a great tutorial! I've been using VirtualBox for quite a while but didn't know how to configure the last few things you showed. This is a great way to help Win 7 users migrate to Linux. I think Mint is a great option, and there are some other distros that are great for newcomers as well.
One thing I have heard about Windows 10 is that you can basically get it for free now. Microsoft just does not care about making money off of individual licenses anymore. Apparently, their "free upgrade to Windows 10" never ended for Win 7 and Win 8.1. This means you could just pirate Win 7, and install a "legal" copy of Win 10. You can also apparently sometimes use a Win 7 product key to activate Win 10 for some reason. There are also tons of sketchy websites where you can buy cheap recycled product keys. And of course, you could just never activate it; you just wouldn't be able to change the theme or wallpaper and stuff like that. It's quite the strange.
If people only knew the power of the Virtualbox. You can do so much with it especially if you know how to install it on Ubuntu(OS) which gets tricky and sometimes confusing when installing; many companies give money to Ubunu including Amazon who has exclusive access so their on the front line when it comes to fresh ideas from new young programmers ( other people who code(program) that dont know that everything they type is being studied ) or used as an idea. Anyway VirtualBox can made to do anything as long as Oracle maintains updates and programmers upgrade efficiently. Ubuntu just makes it so hard to install it; we believe this is because they want to install it on Windows instead. Also PaaS can be achieved using the command line tools for VirtualBox which means that some feel threatened by its potential GUI capability.
Just wanted to say thank you for doing this video, it was very helpful whilst getting virtualbox set up.
I bought a sat nav that has included 'map updates' without even considering the software wouldn't work with Linux. Thanks to the video, I have been able to get the sat nav updated and will hopefully now be able to travel to meet my 8 week old granddaughter for the first time (covid 19 lockdown has prevented this up until now).
Thank you very much, I'm extremely grateful for the easy to follow and informative video.
This is great to hear. I hope that you get to meet your new granddaughter soon. :)
An interesting and informative presentation Chris.I'm a win 7 user (because I hate 10) and this maybe the work around for me to continue using the copy I paid good money for. Thanks. Look forward to the next one. :-)
Yes. I would do that except for the fact that I did not buy a retail copy when it was $70.00 USD. Oh how I wish I had gotten it. I just run windows 7 on an old OEM PC disconnected from all the World Wide Malware.
@@grantsgamesandtech312 I can always copy mine and send it to you after all Microsoft can't object because they've basically thrown win7 away. :-)
@@donaldmarks8707 I don't do piracy, even if Microsoft is wrong. I want to run linux and run the windows apps with my OEM copy in a VM. The only issue is that the host is an old intel celeron 900, and modern tasks are just too resource heavy. If it were are core 2 duo, I could do it. I have plans to upgrade it. If all else fails, I will convert it into a virtual hard disk to preserve this historical software, for years to come...
@@grantsgamesandtech312 It was a joke. Knock the cool off your name mate. :-)
@@donaldmarks8707 They haven't thrown it away. The support has ended, just like every Windows edition before it, hardly a surprise. If you need more copies of W7 all you have to do is buy W10 Pro, and exercise your downgrade rights, just like every edition of Windows...
Whenever I've searched for computer vids to assist me, your videos have helped, this one's another good one, cheers.
That crazy Mr. Scissors! Editing text at random! What will he do next?! 😂
Seriously, though -- excellent tutorial on setting up Virtual box. This will certainly come in handy -- thanks!
Crazy? Mr Scissors is ideal for cutting text from documents for pasting to another :)
Another excellent workshop. Just set mine up. Mint VM on win10 though. Much preferred this to dual booting. Really handy to have Linux capabilities on my Win PC. I used VB 7.0 though. On my legacy bios there was no option for virtualisation - bit I did notice hyperthreading wasn't turned on so I took the opportunity to put that right 👍
Great video! Thank you Christopher!
I have been hearing about linux for some days, but it is only Chris who has made my mind to do the transition from windows to linux. A huge fan, Chris!
Great to hear. I hope that you enjoy your Linux adventure.
I’ve been using Linux since 2006 and it was the best decision ever made.
Will, it back to school today! Let the lessons begin.....
📗📕📖📚📐📏🖊
Hi Dale. :)
Never felt so breezy with a VB setup tutorial before! Brilliant!!
Yes, and now the same again with qemu, kvm and virt-mnager :-D. Thanks a lot.
And let's not forget attaching LVM volumes for the best possible performance.
I hope this helps people with the transition from Windows to Linux, knowing that when moving from Win to Linux that you can still have Win if you get stuck with Linux apps or prefer a particular Win app that you have it at your fingertips could be the push to Linux that people need.
I went the other route by running the few Windows applications I do need within the Wine environment, although if needed I could run a VM on my server
If you struggling to install VBox from the website for some reason, install it using the package manager. Hope someone finds this as helpful as I did.
Great stuff as always. Has started me on putting other VM's on like Ubuntu. The USB explanation was very helpful too
Perfect timing as I am using Linux more and Windows less but still need a few options in Windows.
Thank you . Was having tough time with virtualbox until I watched your video. Virtualbox needs your help with their documentation.
Glad it helped!
Thank you for this, it was explained very well, could be Very useful for a firend who runs a dual boot system atm as she has a few progs that Still require Windows usage,
Lorry from Techpowerup forums?
@@biffzinker7994 it's a fair cop, I give up 😂
Hi Chris, I was looking to do exactly this for an SDR project (uplink / downlink to the QO-100 satellite) - run Windows on a Mint machine with USB pass-through. Got it working with no hitches and just wanted to say thank you for putting this together!
Great to hear! :) I'm glad it worked.
Another great video. It would be useful as some software only run in Windows.
Excellent video, thanks again! 10:29 Yes, making all the settings to be only mildly shafted in stead of being taken without any lubricants makes me feel that way too.
Not sure if it happens with Linux host, but with Win host designating an USB drive causes it to be taken from the host by force, so one needs to be sure the drive ain't doing anything.
This is true.
Ah, that's a good tip. Wouldn't want anything to be corrupted.
Thank you Chris. For small/medium business use, you might want to consider a video on doing a similar operation using Proxmox VE which can be run on a server and run as a service.
"Virtualize everything"!
Running Windows 10 on Proxmox VE which can then be accessed by RDP.
If you want to game in Windows in a virtual machine on Linux, then you should set up PCIe-passthrough. It does require a second graphics card though because both AMD and Nvidia refuse to give us SR-IOV on the gaming cards, we need to pay more to get that privilege.
Yes, indeed so -- if you need that graphics performance in the VM.
I did not know that-that's VERY good to know. I've gamed on a Windows VM, but I wasn't playing anything particularly demanding at the time...
@@ExplainingComputers You should do a video on setting up PCIe-passthrough. People who have integrated graphics can do their Windows gaming that way without dual-booting.
Good call out
@@peterjansen4826 I concur
Still works in June 2021. I had to use the Software Manager rather than the website, but it works. Very helpful, very useful, very clearly explained. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Lucky you, doesn't work for me
@@ndumisoradebe5256 Some of the USB devices had to be turned off in setting to work as they were supposed to work. I don't understand why, but removed the checkmark and gave it a try and got my mouse and keyboard functioning again after they didn't work initially. Also I was not able to use the downloaded files from VirtualBox. I had to use the Software Manager. I am using Mint Cinnamon 20.1. I can use Windows 10 and Linux Mint side by side or full screen... Love it!
@@coenlife I'm also using Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon. I'm stuck after installing Windows 10. When I open the windows 10 it says "Kernel Driver not installed”. I tried reinstalling the virtualbox but it failed to reinstall. I also tried uninstalling it using the terminal, but it says "Virtualbox not installed so cannot remove", yet it's still appears on the list of my installed programs. I rebooted and disabled Secure Boot as some say this might be the cause but when I turn on the laptop the screen just goes black. I am new on Linux. I only started using it Saturday. I'm now forced to go back to Windows 10 for study purposes.
To improve performance, also use 3D acceleration and a 256MB video memory for the display and use bridged networking. 3D acceleration might not work with AMD Vega graphics. It works on my Intel laptop, but it garbles the display on my AMD Ryzen 3 2200G. You can also install the extension pack by simply double clicking it.
Yes
I love your channel and somehow missed this video. It was recommended as I was going through TH-cam vids on VM installation. I've already given you a thumbs up before watching :)
Awesome, thank you!
Adding a like for probably written by Mr Scissors!
I haven't really used windows for anything in several years. I was glad to see you had created a video on how to set up Virtual Box for Linux Mint. I use Linux Mint 19.3 and wanted to have a good idea how to set up VB on it. My interest with anything Windows is for Software Defined Radio or SDR. I have a program called SDR# that runs off a Windows environment along with its respective addons needed to use the SDR Dongle as a receiver for all things amateur radio. I'll be using Windows 7 because most of the SDR software have less issues with 7 than with 10. Either way I think I'm in a win win situation now because of your set video. Thanks CJB for the informative video!
I have an old HP photo printer that only works in Windows XP. I just found the solution, no more dragging the old XP box out of storage. I'll use virtual box.
You'll be amazed at how quickly XP boots when virtualised. I use it for my car's diagnostics tool.
I also use Virtualbox on Linux with an XP VM to support my legacy printers. Contrary to Christopher's advice, I have found that I like to just close my XP VM - and save its machine state, as this helps it start back up faster than shutting it down and then booting it again.
Great presentation Chris. I didn’t know about the USB setup steps - I always appreciate learning something new, thanks!
My first experience with VB was installing Windows 95, safe to say the resource divide made 95 run like it was travelling through hyperspace haha
Haha, that must have been long ago! Nowadays you can't install Windows 95 on Virtualbox or directly on any modern 64-bit computers. It crashes directly after install with a memory protection error on all modern computers with a clock higher than 2.1GHz and the video drivers are very problematical too (only 640 x 480). You best chance is to download a vdi with a community corrected Windows 95. The same is true for 98 and ME.
This man is just amazing. I enjoy watching his channel and i also enjoy his channel's retro type opening.
I'm tempted not to buy a Windows licence the next time I build a desktop PC. Windows 10 does not need activation to work. I'm noticing that I need proprietary software less and less as I get older. A virtual machine for Word, Excel, iTunes and Tableau would work until I am done working and Apple makes it possible to add files to iPhones without Mac/Windows (or I stop using iPhones).
Right now, I have Arch Linux with MATE running in VirtualBox. I haven't done much else with it, but getting Arch to run is a bit of an accomplishment.
You can buy Windows 10 key for a dollar on Ebay.
Thank you for this, Christopher! This was incredibly useful even 4 years later and with Version 7 of VirtualBox! With Windows 10 EOL now on the horizon I refuse to buy a new computer just to run Windows 11. Having played with Pi's for a long time I decided to jump to Linux Mint. As a ham operator (KC7ZDM) I do have some applications I just can't easily find equivalents for in Linux (yet) and VirtualBox seemed like the best way to run them. I now have Windows 10 running in Mint! I really appreciated your humour as well! Cheers!
Another excellent presentation .... Thank You.
Very nice, as usual! You always knock your video subjects "out of the park". I'm running FerenOS Jan, 2020 Snapshot and will setup Windows 10 Pro for which I have a valid product key from when I was running Windows 7 Pro in the VBox VM of Windows 10 Pro. I have moved to Linux as the default OS on my main PC and have decided that if I want to run Windows for any reason, I'll use the option you most elegantly portrayed in this video.
This is indeed my kind of video. I loved it so much, it's encouraged me to embolden myself and step forward with the STOOPIDEST question I can think of: Presumably, when writing in Linux's Writer, having done all you have done in this video, you can then save the document to the Windows® drive, and vice versa - writing in Microsoft® Word® on your virtual machine, you can save to your Linux machine, should you need to? I'm only using Word as an example, I use a lot of music-related recording software, like Reaper, and if I boot reaper on a virtual drive and on the linux drive, I want to know, if possible, if you can access a file you've copied to your virtual drive and save it on the Linux one, and vice versa. I want to be able to use files that I've already created under Windows®. I can never explain things succinctly, sorry. x
For files on the shared folder, that sort of thing certainly works for me, e,g. with Writer and Word or Calc and Excel. But I think that is the only local disc space that both the host and guest OS can see at the same time.
Yes, you can do exactly this with shared folders. I regularly open and work on files in either Linux or Windows from shared space.
Briliant. Thanks to this video, I have got a long way with running a virtual machine, which I have previously regarded as an Arcane Mystery, not for the likes of me.
My version of VirtualBox is 7.0.4 and I'm running it on the Thinkpad T420 I use for Adventures in Computing. One difference I see with 7.x is in installing Guest Additions. Your version offers a choice of physical drive or ISO. 7.0.4 doesn't offer that, only having an option for CD, but there is another command (something like "Load Guest Additions CD") which slightly counterintuitively means "tell the machine to look for the ISO in the D: drive." That doesn't work, but I looked in Explorer for something that looked like the right file, and clicky-wickied, and it worked.
I got a slight hiccup with USB. My venerable machine only has USB 2, so I clicked the radio button for USB 2 controller, and that didn't work: it does work if I tell it to enable the USB 3.0 controller which, as a matter of fact, I don't have. idk, but I can see a USB drive now.
My only problem left is getting iTunes to see the WiFi network rather than the virtualised connection, so I can hook it up to Airplay. This is a pretty niche requirement, and thanks to you I feel confident in trying to solve it.
I spent a career in tertiary level teaching, some of it fluffy stuff, some of it with its own technicalities. I know absolutely first-rate exposition of difficult material when I see it, and you're a master. Just the right amount of PowerPoint and graphics--in this, I was actually grateful for having the main points all on one slide. Brilliant.
Thanks for this, and good to hear of your success. :)
@@ExplainingComputers Just to follow up on one of my failures. I wanted to run iTunes in Windows, using Airplay. To do that, iTunes has to see the WiFi adapter with its own beady little eyes, apparently. This is not possible with the host computer's internal WiFi adapter, because VirtualBox virtualizes it, which is not good enough for iTunes (picky). The answer seems to be to use an external USB dongle in the VM. I happened to have an ancient WiFi n adapter; after a certain amount of fluffing around with switches and getting the sequences of start-ups right, I got the external adapter visible in Windows, and iTunes found my Airport Express. So, finally, I could listen to Andras Schiff playing Bach over my monitors attached to an Airport Express, while browsing the web in Firefox in Linux Mint. Tomorrow, I see if iTunes can find my iPhone when plugged in. (All the choices which have brought me to this situation have been made rationally, but the complications can make you wonder.)
good tutorial. why do you keep shutting down Windows? freezing ("save machine state") a VM is quicker and works very well. and saves everything you were working on the VM
I would not personally use freeze when changing virtual machine settings. Freezing is fine for final use, not for setup. Also, frozen machines may hang on to resources (like USB drives).
Okay, well, out of the frying pan into a higher-up frying pan. I had partitioned an old Windows 7 laptop, installed Kubuntu on the second partition, and then configured VirtualBox to hog-up half of the Kubuntu partition and installed Windows XP inside of that. I'll bet I could fit Windows 98 in as well. However, it occurs to me that this laptop is already eight years old, and I'll need to replace it soon.
My software installed nicely into the Windows XP virtual system, but it doesn't seem to be able to load my data - well, anything newer than six months old (which would be a LOT of work recovering - albeit less than recovering 50 years of data). The only file that loads is all lower-case filename, so that seems a bit odd. None of the upper-case files will load.
There are several more pieces of old software to load, but those have never given me issues.
I'm glad you mentioned about Guest Additions, shared folders, shared clipboard and USB support, or this wouldn't have gone well. So, many thanks for this particular tutorial. It worked.