This will make the Vail VM appear as a separate machine on your network. Check Enable Network Adapter and change it to Bridged Adapter. The Network settings are probably the most important as they are in the VMware installs. We adjusted the Display and maxed the video memory and you can enable 2D/3D Acceleration if you want, but there is no benefit from it. Now that the machine is ready to go, we need to make a few adjustments to the hardware settings for the VM. Review your new machine summary and click on Finish. Since we picked Dynamically Expanding storage, it won’t take up the full 160GB on the disk. Select the size of your disk where the minimum is 160GB. We actually tried it both ways and they worked equally.Īgain you can create a Fixed size hard drive if you want, but it can take quite a while, and can slow down other running tasks you’re using while waiting for it to complete. We chose Dynamically expanding storage versus Fixed, as the minimum requirement is 160GB and creating it as Fixed storage takes quite a while. You can select Fixed size or Dynamically expanding storage. Now we need to create a new Virtual Hard Disk… The minimum is 1GB but here we’re bumping it up to 2GB. Select the amount of memory you want to use. When you come to the screen to pick the OS type, select Windows 2008 (64-bit) and give your machine a name. From the main interface click on New to begin the New Machine Wizard. Now that we have VirtualBox installed it’s time to create our VM for Vail. You’ll be prompted to approve the install of the device software, click Install. During the installation select Yes to the warning about Network Interfaces. Installation is straight-forward choosing the defaults. If you don’t already have the latest version of VirtualBox installed on your PC, go to the VirtualBox site and download it (link below).
To check if you’re system is capable of Hardware Virtualization you can use either SecurAble or the MS Virtualization Detection Tool…both are free and easy to use utilities. For best results make sure the Host computer supports Hardware Virtualization. We’ve read some articles that you can install it on a system without Hardware Virtualization, but haven’t been able to confirm that. Note: You will need to install VirtualBox on a 64-bit Windows System that supports hardware virtualization. Today we complete our Vail VM series and show you how to install it on Oracle’s free VirtualBox. We’ve previously shown you how to install WHS Vail on the following VMware Products: To complete our series of installing WHS “Vail” Beta virtually, we look at installing it on Oracle’s VirtualBox. If you don’t have an extra machine or are an early adopter who wants to test out Vail, creating a VM is a good choice.
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