With the help of virtualbox & vmware its very easy to install 2 or more operating systems on the same hardware. Today we are going to learn how to install centos7 on virtualbox. where i have install virtual box on windows system. Link to how to install virtual box is here:
After installation of virtualbox if you open it. We will see below window. Then click on Add button.
After add you will see Create Virtual Machine image. where You can give name to your new OS. I have given here as Centos1. Type i have used as Linux with Red Hat(64 bit) OS. Then Please click on Next Button.
Now, you need to edit memory size for your system. I have set it as 2048 MB which is nothing but 2 GB. Then click on next button.
Then next window appears, where you have to select hard disk of 8 GB. Click on create a virtual disk now. Then click on create.
Then select hard disk file type as VDI ( Virtual disk Image). Then click on next button.
Then Storage on physical hard disk select as dynamically allocated. Then click on next button.
Now provide File location and size. I have given File location as C:\Users\Shree\Virtualbox VMs\Centos1.vdi . Next Assign memory as per requirement. Then, Click on create.
Now Virtually vm has created. Now Start the System by using start button.
An iso image of os is nothing but the mirror image of operating system. Download Centos 7 64/32 bit OS as per the your system requirement. Then browse the downloaded iso image. Click on start button. It will start the installation process.
Select by using up arrow Install Centos7. Click on it. Then installation begins.
Do the country & language setting, as per your requirement.Then Continue.
Select hard disk & click on done button. Need to complete user & root creation with password.Then actual installation will start. It will take approximately half an hour for complete installation. When installation will finish. You will get below window. Then reboot your system by clicking reboot button.
You can able to login to centos system by using root user & password. as below.
Now, You have successfully login to your newly installed centos7 OS. In the same way you can try another OS installation like fedora, ubuntu, kali linux, windows different versions, Redhat OS, etc.
Thank you very much for reading above article.
