VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALLATION

In order to run VirtualBox on your machine, you need:
• Reasonably powerful x86 hardware. Any recent Intel or AMD processor should do.
• Memory. Depending on what guest operating systems you want to run, you will need at least 512 MB of RAM (but probably more, and the more the better). Basically, you will need whatever your host operating system needs to run comfortably, plus the amount that the guest operating system needs.
• Hard disk space. While VirtualBox itself is very lean (a typical installation will only need about 30 MB of hard disk space), the virtual machines will require fairly huge files on disk to represent their own hard disk storage. So, to install Windows XP, for example, you will need a file that will easily grow to several GB in size.

VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALLATION
Step 1: After you installed the virtual box open the virtual machine wizard(All Programs->Sun Virtual Box) Click the “NEW” button.
Step 2: Provide the VN name(user defined) and select the OS type(For Eg., if you want to use Windows XP as your virtual os select Windows XP)
Step 3: Select Base Memory size. The Size should not be more than 50%. (Eg your RAM size is 1024 MB(1 GB) then memory size should not be more than 512 Mb i.e <512)
Step 4: Select Virtual Hard Disk(.vdi). If its not created in host OS follow the below steps.
Step 5: Select VHD(Virtual Hard Disk) type->Dynamic Storage is the preferable one.
Step 6: Select the VHD Location and Size
Step 7: Click Finish. Your VM has created.
Step 8: Before you Starting you VM review your settings.
Step 9: You can launch your VM