Installing Windows 8 or any other OS using VirtualBox


Introduction

Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. Oracle VM VirtualBox is installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Solaris, and OpenSolaris; there is also a port to FreeBSD. Supported guest operating systems include versions and derivations of Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris and others. Since release 3.2.0, VirtualBox also allows limited virtualization of Mac OS X guests on Apple hardware.

Download VirualBox

At very first, you need to download VirtualBox software and install it on your existing OS. Download it from here.

Download Guest OS

For example, if you have Windows 7 already running, and you are wishing to install Windows 8 then download the Windows 8 ISO.

Once you have Windows 8 ISO, read this post to install it using VirtualBox on Windows 7.


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