

When the virtual drive has been created you can now begin installing your operating system. We’re installing Windows 10 here, but you can choose between Linux, BSD, Solaris, IBM OS/2, Mac OS X or Other (which includes DOS).

Next you’ll be asked to name the VM and select which type it is from the drop-down menus. To create a new Virtual Machine you’ll first need to click on the New icon in the top left corner of the window. Launch Virtualbox and you’ll be presented with a mostly empty menu welcoming you to the software. It’s a similar process in pretty much all virtualisation software, though.

Virtualbox, which is the software we’ll use here. If you have Hyper-V and the latest Windows 10 Update, then it’s simply a case of searching for Hyper-V Quick Create and following the on-screen instructions (you can select your own image source if you don’t want to use one of the supplied ones).įor those who can’t or don’t want to use Hyper-V, download and install Windows will generally work for a short period before it demands activation, but you could also download the Windows 10 Enterprise 90 day evaluation ISO which may give you enough time to do what you need to do.
