aldelaro5
Can you give me a bit of advice on VirtualBox?
I'm thinking of adding Windows XP or 7 so that I can play Visual Novels and other Japanese games which don't work in wine.
I wish it would be simple, but the problem is ms removed their link for a windows 7 iso. It should be easier to find a windows 7 iso then a windows xp one though.
You need an installation disc iso and if you kept your license key, this is a bonus because the key can actually work (they say one pc at a time, but nothing prevents you from changing the pc, you might have to call them though).
Anyway once you got the iso through weird means (by this I mean torrent), well you are good to go.
You basically create a vm, choose your OS and create a virtual disk which the more you have, the more space it would take on your pc, but it gives more storage to the vm. RAM, I say 2gb minimum, but if you have a lot of ram, go higher. For cpu, if you have a quad core, give him 2 core and if you have a dual core, give only one core.
As for settings, put shared clipboard and drag n drop to bidirectional, yes, your copy paste can work from host to guest
system,. this is where you set the order of boot, when installing the os, put the cd first and when not, put the had disk first. in the acceleration tab, make sure the 2 check boxes are checked and the thing set to hyper Z.
For display, have the Max amount of video memory and always enable 2d/3d acceleration, but this is not goign to give stuff like open gl 4.5, this is not the best graphics you can get, but they work.
Storage is when you would manage your iso. if you don;t have a cd, right click on your controller and select add optical disk. Click on the cd and on the right, you should see a cd and click the arrow and you should have the option to choose a virtual disk file, click it and this is where you select your iso. After you don;t need the iso, simply reset it to empty, but don;t remove the cd yet, you would need one later.
btw, before you start, I recommend updating your virtual bos, the one included is old and you lack very neat features, jsut saying, also, get the extensions pack so stuff like usb 3.0 can work.
After you jsut boot it, this should act like a normal windows install.
After the installation, set your cd to empty and put your hard disk first in the boot list.
Finally, this is very important, but when in a vm, go to device and select insert virtualbox guest cd blablabla, jsut select it. This will insert the image of the virtualbox guest software int he vm, go to that cd in the windows explorer and run it. Just follow the stuff and MAKE SURE to install the dx3d stuff that is by default unchecked and ignore the wearing, this is important to run some stuff. After the installation, they wil ask a reboot, do so (the vm, not the host).
After, you should have all features that makes a vm awesome