Installation of VirtualBox in Windows 11 and Windows 10

You will have many questions in your mind related to VirtualBox in Windows 11 or Windows 10 (Oracle VirtualBox) or any other application similar to VirtualBox such as

What is Virtual Box?

Why do we need VirtualBox?

How can we install VirtualBox in Windows 11?

Will it be helpful for us?

All answers you will get in this article. After completing this article, you will get a complete idea about VirtualBox and its functionality as well you will be familiar with it in your daily practices.

We will learn the installation process of the VirtualBox in windows 11 or windows 10. For your reference, you can get information from the video for the installation steps.

What is VirtualBox?

The Oracle VirtualBox is simply known as VirtualBox. The VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. This application provides the flexibility to use multiple Operating systems and virtual platforms in a single computer without increasing hardware cost. This tool helps virtualization of business and home applications, this provides infrastructure for application development and analysis of the behavior of different available platforms.

User just needs to install virtual OS (Operating systems) using this application on his/her computer and can deploy the developed application on this virtual platform, he/she can be able to observe the behavior of the newly developed application on a virtual OS such as Windows 10, 8.1, 8, Linux or any other OS version whichever is available.

Why do we need VirtualBox?

As you know the VirtualBox provides cross-platform virtualization and it helps to use multiple OS (Operating systems) in a single computer. This means that we can install multiple OS on a single computer without changing the parent OS or Current OS example. If you have pre-installed Windows 10 or any other OS on your computer, you do not need to change it. You just need to install an application called VirtualBox and you can install any OS, whichever you need, you can use it and can save your work on it.

The VirtualBox itself provides the option to save the current state of the installed operating system, this feature will help you to start your work again with the last state wherever you left.

This will also provide another useful feature called a clone of the current operating system, in that way you can make a clone of the current state and can use it. This clone will install on any other computer, this will save your time to start from scratch and do the installation.

Suppose you need to install a number of software and use it, as well your team needs to work on the same tools. You can save your current state and make a clone of that state. After that you can export that clone and import it to another computer, you will get the same environment or copy of your configured OS on another computer. In this case, you can save your work to set up the application again and again for all computers.

How to install VirtualBox in Windows 11 or 10 Computer?

Before going to install VirtualBox in Windows 11, we must focus on prerequisites for this application. This application is supported on almost all majorly available operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

It’s recommended to enable Virtualization in your computer, to do this you need to go into your BIOS configuration and enable it. After enabling Virtualization, you can check it in your task manager’s Performance tab under the CPU section. (Referring to Windows 11 and Windows 10 OS)

After enabling the Virtualization, you are ready to go for VirtualBox installation. Do the following steps to install VirtualBox in Windows 11 or any other operating system –

• Download the VirtualBox latest application from official link – Downloads – Oracle VM VirtualBox
• Select your computer’s operating systems and download the supported application version

• Check download will start in your browser’s download list
    

• After downloading the application, you just need to double click on the application and just follow simple installation steps to complete the installation.
• Once installation is completed, download the VirtualBox extension pack for more features. You will find the extension pack download link here – https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.26/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.26.vbox-extpack
• After downloading the extension pack, just import it in VirtualBox.
• Just restart the VirtualBox application, now you are ready to install any Virtual Operating system on VirtualBox.
• For Virtual OS installation you need to download ISO file or VirtualBox file to import and follow the simple installation steps. If you are having any issues installing Virtual OS on your computer, I will be available with my new updates to install Virtual OS on the computer.

Using the above steps you will easily install VirtualBox in Windows 11 or any other computer.

Will VirtualBox be helpful for us?

Yes of course it is helpful. Here are some useful features of VirtualBox that will give you the answer to this question.

• Portability, VirtualBox runs on large numbers of operating systems
• Shared folders/directories
• Easy installation and great hardware support
• Multigeneration branch snapshots, helps to manage your work and provide flexibility to rollback any changes you have made during your work
• RDP support
• Easy migration from one computer to another

By using the above features you will do your work smartly and save your time to struggle to fix the issues. You can easily save your work state and roll back whenever required within one to two minutes. As well, you can create a copy of your current state and can install it on multiple computers, this will help you to save your team’s time to do repeated activities to reconfigure your state on your first computer.

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