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Figure 22-19 Setting the virtual drive size

Installing the Operating System

Once you’ve created the new guest VM, it’s time to install a guest operating

system. Just because you’re creating a virtual machine, don’t think the

operating system and applications aren’t real. You need to install an

operating system on that virtual machine. You can do this using some form of

optical media, just as you would on a machine without virtualization. Would

you like to use Microsoft Windows in your virtual machine? No problem, but

know that every virtual machine on which you create and install Windows

requires a separate, legal copy of Windows; this also goes for any licensed

software installed in the VM.

Because virtual machines are so flexible on hardware, all good virtual

machine managers enable you to use the host machine’s optical drive, a USB

thumb drive, or an ISO file. One of the most popular ways is to tell the new

virtual machine to treat an ISO file as its own optical drive. In Figure 22-20,

I’m installing Fedora Workstation on a VirtualBox virtual machine. I

downloaded an ISO image from the Fedora Web site (https://getfedora.org),

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