Click VirtualBox’s Add toolbar button, give the VM a name, and set Type to Linux, and Version to Other Linux, with the appropriate bit (32 or 64) parameter matching your distro.

That is how you can install Fedora on a Virtual Machine. Just like that, you can install any Linux Operating System on a Windows machine using the VirtualBox or other VM tools.

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of creating simple bash scripts to automate backing up your VirtualBox VMs.

If you want install Oracle Linux on Oracle VirtualBox, you can follow this guide to download the VM tool, ISO file, and create the VM.

Your real PC running VirtualBox is called the host; VirtualBox is technically the hypervisor; and any virtualized systems it runs on the host PC are called guests, and are your virtual machines (VM).

On Windows, you'd probably use something along the lines of VirtualBox or VMware Workstation Pro when you're a beginner, before moving on to Hyper-V for hardcore projects. The Linux landscape has ...

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.

The VirtualBox makers have described the process for Windows and Linux users in a FAQ post, and I've described the virtual-Windows-inside-Linux process in more detail in our guide to running ...