Instructor: In this video,
we are going to create a safe environment
using a virtualization system called VirtualBox.
Now, the reason I chose VirtualBox
as opposed to VMware or HyperV or many
of the other virtualization solutions is simply
because VirtualBox is free to use.
It's an open source product.
It works really well
and you can download it wherever you are
in the world for free and be able to use it.
So what we're going to do
is we're going to open up our web browser.
I'm going to use Google Chrome
and we're going to go to VirtualBox.org.
Now, when we get to VirtualBox.org here on the main screen
you're going to see download VirtualBox
version five point whatever or whatever version is current
as of the time of this recording.
So we're going to go ahead and click on download VirtualBox
and we're going to select which host we're using.
Now, if you're using a Windows machine,
you're going to click on Windows host.
I am using a Macintosh machine, so I'm going to use OSX host.
And if you're using a Linux, you'd click on Linux.
At this point, it will start downloading
as you could see here in the bottom corner.
It'll take just a couple of seconds
and then we'll be able to go ahead and launch VirtualBox
and use the installer to install the program.
And here we go, we have VirtualBox.
If you're on a Mac, it's going to come
as a download as a DMG or a disk image file.
If you're on Windows, it'll be an exe installer.
Either way, you're going to go ahead and open that file up
just like I did
and you're going to double click the file for installation.
Now it's going to go through
and do just a standard installation here.
So we'll just click on continue and continue.
I like to customize it and make sure
that my command line utilities are being installed
by having that check mark is checked,
and then we'll go ahead and hit install.
Use your password for your system.
It's going to ask you for your username and password
because it needs administrative rights to install this.
And then it will go through the installation process
which will take just a couple of minutes.
Once it's done, you're going to go ahead
and hit close to close the installer.
You can move it to trash or throw it to your recycling bin
if you're on Windows.
And at that point, VirtualBox will be installed
and you can see on my machine, it is installed
in my application folder right here with VirtualBox.
Now that we've installed VirtualBox,
let's go ahead and open it.
So I'm going to go to my applications folder
and click on VirtualBox.
If you're using Windows, go to your start menu
and you'll be able to find your VirtualBox in there.
Now, once you open it up,
you can see that there's not much here.
We don't have any virtual machines yet.
And so we're going to have to install one.
So if you have a Windows disk,
you can go ahead and install it now
walking through the steps by clicking the new button
in the upper left hand corner of your VirtualBox manager.
But if you don't,
I'm going to show you where you can get a free Windows version,
Windows 10, to be able to use it for the next 90 days
while you're taking this course as a trial.
So what we're going to do
is we're going to open up our Google Chrome
and in Google, we're going to search for Windows 10 Edge
and then type in virtual machine.
Now the nice thing here is
that Microsoft provides developers free virtual machines
with version IE8
through Microsoft Edge to test out their websites.
But we can also use that for our purposes.
So go ahead and click on that first link there.
And you'll select the virtual machine you want.
They have Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
We're going to choose Microsoft Edge
on Windows 10 X64 stable version,
which as of today is version 16.16299.
And then select your platform,
which for us is going to be VirtualBox.
And at that point you can click download zip
and it will start downloading.
Now you'll notice that this is a very large file.
It is 4.9 gigabytes.
So if you have a slow internet connection,
this can take you a long time to download.
If that's you, you might want to find a DVD
or CD with an older version of Windows
whether that's Windows XP, 7, 8, or 10.
Now in this course, I'm going to use Windows 10.
And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to pause the video
and I'm going to come back when this is finished downloading
and I'll walk you
through how we can install this inside a VirtualBox.
So I'm back and our VM has finished downloading.
So we're going to go ahead and close out our browser here
and you can see that we are back here in VirtualBox.
So if I go to my downloads folder, you'll see
that Microsoft Edge Windows 10 VirtualBox.zip
has been downloaded.
I'm going to go ahead and expand that.
On Mac, you simply need to click on it
and it will expand it for you.
If you're on Windows, you will right click it
and tell it to extract the zip file.
Now, once that's done,
you're going to have a folder inside your downloads folder
called Microsoft Edge Windows 10.
And if I open that up, you'll see, there are two files.
There is this VMDK file on the left
and an OVF file on the right.
OVF is actually the container file for a virtual machine.
The VMDK file is the virtual hard disk
for that virtual machine.
And so for us to install this inside a VirtualBox,
we simply have to double click that OVF file.
And it's going to go ahead and ask us if we want
to import that into our virtual machine,
inside a VirtualBox.
So I'm going to go ahead
and click initialize the Mac address of the network card.
And you'll see here, we have a Microsoft Edge Windows 10
version operating system, running Windows 10 64 bit.
It's going to use one CPU
and it's giving it four gigabytes of RAM.
Now we could change that if we wanted to
but for best performance, we're going to go ahead
and leave that as four gigabytes of RAM.
You'll see it has a network card, a sound card
and a virtual disk image, all ready to go.
We'll go ahead and hit import.
And as you can see, it'll take just a couple
of minutes for this to install Windows 10 for us.
So now that we have downloaded VirtualBox
and installed it and then installed Windows 10 inside of it,
we're ready to go ahead and boot up our Windows 10 machine.
So we'll just click on it
and then click the green start button.
It's going to go ahead and boot up here for us
and it'll take about 30 to 60 seconds
the first time you go ahead and boot it.
Now, when it boots up,
it's going to log in with the IE user account.
And you'll see me log in here with it.
To do that, if it asks for the password,
the password on this VM is the word Passw0rd!
So it's capital P, little a, little s s, little w, zero,
r, d, and then exclamation mark.
And you can see that here on the screen,
the username and password is password
and that's a zero, not a O.
This is the default administrator account
on this virtual machine that Microsoft has provided us.
So at this point we have installed VirtualBox.
We have imported a virtual machine,
and now we've booted up Windows inside of a virtual machine
on a Mac environment.
And so you can see here
that we now have a full Windows 10 machine
that we can do whatever we want with inside
of this Mac environment.
And we'll be able to operate it just as if we were sitting
in front of any other Windows 10 machine
whether that's a desktop or a laptop
because it has all those same features
and capabilities for us because this is an older Mac
that is using an X64 base processor.