You can add multiple virtual CPUs to the virtual machine depending on the performance of your host CPU. Since Floppy is legacy hardware, disable the device and configure the first boot order as Optical. You need to set the Boot Order settings of the System / Motherboard hardware in the settings of the Windows 7 virtual computer. When installing a system on virtual machines, the boot order must be changed. Next, the installation media of the operating system must be inserted into the optical drive and the computer must be started with the installation media. In order to install either Windows or Linux operating systems on a physical computer, the boot order must be changed in the BIOS settings. If you are using an older PC, you can allocate disk space on your host’s disk as much as the capacity of the virtual disk by using the Fixed Size option to increase the performance of the virtual machine. If you do not want to fill the capacity of your host disk unnecessarily, you should choose the Dynamically Allocated option. VMDK is a virtual disk file commonly used by VMware Workstation.Īlso, you must select in this window how the virtual disk file will be stored on your physical HDD. VHD is used for Microsoft proprietary virtualization software. In the 6.x versions of VirtualBox, select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) developed by Oracle for the type of virtual disk and continue. If you have a system that you have previously installed with Oracle virtualization software, you need to add the virtual HDD of that system with the Use an existing virtual hard disk file option. Since you are installing Windows 7 from scratch, you need to select Create a virtual hard disk now in the Hard disk configuration window. If your host has 8 GB of RAM, it is sufficient to configure this value to 4 GB. However, since it will be more stable to prepare a VM with the manual method, select the Skip Unattended Installation option and click Next.įor the Memory Size setting, set a suitable value for the Windows 7 VM depending on the RAM capacity of your host computer.
In the 7.x versions of VirtualBox, you can now use the unattended installation feature to prepare a guest machine with its settings preconfigured.
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