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Installing a Virtual Machine in Windows 10

Step #1 is to decide which virtual machine software you wish to install.

The three most popular choices are:

• VirtualBox (from Oracle)
• VMWare Workstation Player (from VMWare); and
• Hyper-V (from Microsoft)

Once you've made your choice you can find detailed, illustrated instructions for installing each one on the internet.

As a personal suggestion: You might find it easier to use either VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation Player. Hyper-V is more complicated to setup.

Between VirtualBox and VMWare, I think you'll find VirtualBox more user-friendly, and it has the advantage of allowing you to create checkpoints - backups of your virtual machine - whereas to do that in VMWare you'll need to upgrade to their (expensive!)
paid version.

 

Unable To Start Oracle Virtual Machine

Hi all,

I followed the counsels given by Oracle VirtualBox forums to deactivate Hyper-V and Windows Sandbox (Hyper-V was never activated).

Still the problem remains - cannot start any virtual machine (need them to do different tests).

If you cannot wait for a fix (it may take a long time), the only way is to revert to the previous version, if you still have the Windows.old.

Regards,

Vasco

 

win 10 to ssd for virtual machine/box

This is wrong. While it is true that there is no Hyper-V VM feature in Home edition, there are STILL alternatives to Oracle1s VirtualBox. Actually VirtualBox is not very fast. You should choose VMWare Player instead, which is also FREE.
Perhaps even easier to use and you can find video tutorials for it.
So step one is to get rid of Oracle Virtualbox, erase all your attempts, delete wintousb too (I think you're using it wrong, and not needed anyway).
Step two is to download and install VMWare Player and follow its instructions to set up a new virtual machine
You need a Windows 10 Installer ISO for that. If you don't already have one, use the Windows 10 Media Creation tool to download an iso to your desktop. You do not need to burn it to a DVD and you also don't need to write it to any external storage. Just have the iso file on your desktop.
Then launch VMWare Player and with the create new virtual machine feature, use the recommended default settings everywhere (except storage location which you can move to your external disk), just keep hitting next next next, browse for the ISO and set up login credentials, also your serial number if you have any. From this point onwards, VMWare Player will do EVERYTHING for you. It will automatically start up the virtual machine and install the OS into it. You don't have to do anything. A bit later on, you will have a fully functional virtual OS with networking capability and full USB support.

Hyper-V and Oracle's VirtualBox are much more complicated and less user friendly solutions. They are great software as well but for you, VMWare Player is a better choice probably and actually it has far superior performance than VirtualBox.