there comes a time when you need to use
windows to do something that Linux just
can't do but unless you're playing games
or doing some other type of heavy tasks
it may not be necessary to install
windows to bare metal so it's better to
install it as a virtual machine than to
have it occupying one of your precious
SSDs first thing that you'll want is to
obtain a totally legitimate Windows 10
ISO from a totally legitimate Windows 10
ISO provider and once you have that we
want to head over to VirtualBox click on
new and type Windows 10 or whatever
version of Windows that you're going to
be using and the version should also
change down here automatically just make
sure that it's the same 64-bit or 32-bit
whichever one that you're going to be
using then we're gonna hit next and
change your memory size I recommend
using at least four gigs of RAM if it's
gonna be a Windows 10 VM so I'm gonna
crank that right up the next we're going
to create a virtual hard disk now click
create I'm going to do it as a VDI
virtual disk image next I'm going to
change it to be a fixed size fixed size
has a little bit better performance than
dynamically allocating your virtual hard
disk space but if you use fixed size you
won't be able to change the space later
you won't be able to expand it so just
make sure you plan ahead if you're going
to use fixed size make sure that you
know how much space you're going to need
and advanced next you can change the
name of the Windows 10 that you're going
to use you can change where it's going
to be located so you can do that here
and then change the folder that you want
it to be saved into and you can also
crank up or crank down the amount of
space that you want for the virtual
image but I'm gonna leave it at 50 gigs
and then we're going to click create
now we can go into our settings and I'm
going to change a few things here so
first I want to have two processors so
that it can essentially function as a
dual core or at least a dual thread I'm
going to go into display enable 3d
acceleration and crank the video memory
up to 256 Meg's and I'm also going to
remove the networking and you'll see why
we're going to do that in a little while
it's going to allow us to install it
without having to do a certain setting
and of course we want to add our ISO
you
okay and then we're going to start it up
all right so this is going to load for a
little while
okay and then it brings us to the
language settings so choose whatever
language and input settings that you
need we're going to do Install Now
so it's gonna ask us for our
a key just do I don't have a product key
or if you do go ahead and enter it and
then we're going to select the version
I'm just going to use Windows 10 home
for this case
accept the license terms and I'm gonna
do custom install windows only advanced
and hit next and then it's going to
start installing windows and this part
will take a little while so I'm going to
go ahead and pause the video here
alright and then once it's done
restarting windows is going to go ahead
and restart
and then just don't press any key here
and it's going to load into the next
phase of the Windows installation
you
once windows is done getting ready it's
going to reboot another time and then
you're going to be on this just a moment
screen until Cortana looks and I'm here
to help a little so first thing we're
gonna want to do very important is
Cortana because we're not interested in
hearing from her she's gonna try to
explain to us how Windows works she's
gonna try to coax us into talking to her
and using some sort of like
voice-activated setup but don't fall for
her tricks just mute her you know let
her finish doing her spiel here and then
eventually she'll stop running her mouth
and we'll be able to start with the
install so choose your region
choose your keyboard layout not exactly
sure why it makes you go through all of
this since we already selected it in the
first place but you know it's Windows
what can what can we expect so then
we're gonna select here I don't have
internet because remember we didn't
actually connect it to a network and
it's going to it's going to again try
and trick us and say hey you want to do
all of this cool stuff no we don't we
want to continue with a limited set up
all right so this is the reason why I
recommend setting it up without internet
is because by default it is going to ask
you to basically create a Windows
account where you have to provide it an
email address and you either have to
provide it a real email address or you
have to go and make one up and if you're
gonna use this for a while and you're
just gonna use it as a virtual machine
having the whole windows account
nonsense is just a hassle but this will
let you create an offline account so
we're just going to call it let's call
it Billy Gates go ahead and hit next and
then create a password if you want to or
not I'm not going to
no we're not doing that nope we're not
gonna use Cortana and we're gonna change
all of this off cuz all of these
settings are spooky probably doesn't
matter though because there's most
likely gonna be some hidden settings in
here that we can't change no matter what
we do anyway
so when you're done Cortana is going to
you know talk to you and let you know
that she's setting everything up she's
gonna say hi and talk to you like a
weirdo you get all this nice animation
telling you that they're setting windows
up in my opinion you know this is just
there's just me talking I feel like it'd
be a little bit better if instead of
doing all this nice cool cinematic stuff
you just contribute that little bit of
RAM in that little bit of CPU power
that's required to do this into you know
deploying my system that'd be a lot
better
all right so after waiting several
minutes and not turning off our PC we
have our Windows 10 machine but you know
it's a little bit small so I'm gonna go
ahead and do guest additions so that we
can get a larger resolution going so you
want to go up to devices and click
insert the guest additions CD image and
then click on this little folder here to
launch File Explorer click on this PC
and then you should have the CD drive
here we just want to click into that and
then select the V box Windows Editions
amd64
two-bit version if you're uh you know
doing a 32-bit windows install it next
next install
and this is going to run for a little
while it's gonna ask you would you like
to install this device software and
we're going to want to install it and
check the box to always trust software
from Oracle Corporation
you
all right and we're going to go ahead
and reboot now
so when this restarts we should be able
to have a full screen inside of Windows
10 or at least full screen eligible we
might have to still manually change the
resolution
you
and
it hasn't set our resolution yet so
let's go into our display settings
ah there we go it's wait a minute
hah that's weird
back up
ah for some reason it's not giving us
our settings
let me try rebooting it again
all right so rebooting and not opening
up the display settings caused it to
work I guess having the displace
headings open while the resolution is
changing automatically just makes
windows too confused and unable to set
its resolution properly but it's here
now
I've even got this other weird one here
like what is this such an odd resolution
that's not even the right resolution but
that's how to install a Windows 10
virtual machine same aren't you glad
that you installed this thing on a
VirtualBox image and not actually to
your hardware it's it's it's an odd
operating system and it's not open
source so nobody truly knows how it
works
all right guys enjoy the virtual machine
peace out