Choose virtual optical disk file virtualbox

#Choose virtual optical disk file virtualbox how to#

VirtualBox can be very useful for people like me who always like to try and mess with different application softwareвЂ™s and operating systems.

#Choose virtual optical disk file virtualbox how to#

We will find how to do that in later part of the article. But it is the misconception because setting up virtual machines is an easy task and it wonвЂ™t affect your computer system if you set it up correctly.

I know many of us have heard of VirtualBox but always been shy of trying or using it just because we think it is a messy task to setup a Virtual Machine and it might harm our whole computer system. Everything depends on amount of hardware resource allocated to virtual machine. Running any application software or video game on virtual machines is sometimes not as smooth as running them on an OS installed on full hardware. This file works as a real hard drive for the guest OS. Virtual hard drive is nothing but a big size file stored on the computer hard drive. What VirtualBox actually does is that it creates virtual hard drive and installs guest OS on it. Basically VB allows user to run guest operating system on another host operating system virtually without need for partitioning of hard drive or running another OS on dual boot which involves risk of crashing the host system. VirtualBox (VB) is a cross-platform hypervisor or virtualization software developed by Oracle Corporation.