I demonstrate it in the video below.Īfter you’ve configured these settings, it’s finally time to boot your virtual machine! If your live session doesn’t scale to full screen, try to change the Graphic Controller. For example, you get full screen resolution for Live CD with VBoxSVGA. In my experience, VBoxSVGA works the best. Youĭepending on your VirtualBox version, you may also have an option to select Graphic Controller. Need to increase video memory and enable 3D acceleration. To make your desktop experience in the virtual machine as smooth as possible, we UEFI is a modernĪlternative to BIOS designed to overcome the limitations of BIOS. Low-level software that starts when you boot the machine. Which makes the virtual machine use UEFI over BIOS. I usually allocate half of all cores available. The number ofĬPU cores you should allocate depends on your CPU. Increase the number of CPU cores available to a virtual machine. Settings to make sure it runs like a top! Optimal SettingsĪccess the settings of your virtual machine by right-clicking on it in the list.Īfter you’ve launched the settings window, go to System → Processor tab. Now that we’ve created a virtual machine, it’s time to explore optimal Right-click on your virtual machine entry in the list → Storage → + button → Add optical drive → Select your ISO The last step before booting your virtual machine is to select your distro’s ISO file, of course! The virtual hard disk, I set 30GB and would recommend at least 15GB. It usually results in less occupied space. The dynamic allocation fills up the space on your disk as the data Regarding the size of a hard disk, I recommend dynamicĪllocation. You can leave default settings for hard disk and hardĭisk file type. Now you’ll need to select a hard disk, hard disk file type and the I recommend to use 2GB minimum for any Linux distro in a virtual machine.

However, if you have a lot of RAM, feel free to add some GB forīetter performance. VirtualBox will automatically select the recommended amount of RAM for The next step is to select how much RAM the virtual machine is allowed to Name your virtual machine and select the right type and version. Let’s kick-off the process by clicking the “New” button in the top leftĬorner. If you do have a virtual machine already, feel free to Fire up VirtualBox and let’s get started! Creating a virtual machineīefore we dive into settings, we need to create a virtual machine.

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