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Here are a few video tutorials that explain How to download and install VirtualBox on Mac OS, How to Set Up and Use VirtualBox, How to run Windows XP on Linux Ubuntu with Virtualbox, How to use virtual box, How to Install Ubuntu on virtualbox.

You can download VirtualBox Free Here.

1. How to Download and Install VirtualBox on Mac OS

2. How to Set Up and Use A Virtual Machine for Free – VirtualBox

3. How to run Windows XP on Linux Ubuntu with Virtualbox

4. How to use virtual box

5. How to Install Ubuntu on virtualbox

Here is a tutorial that explains how to Install Windows 8 on VMare. This tutorial explains how can you install Windows 8 on a virtual machine, side-by-side on your main operating system. So, you can have both Windows 7 as well as Windows 8 working together on a PC.

How to Install Windows 8 on VMware:

At this point I believe that you already created a virtual machine for installing Windows 8 in your VMware Workstation 8. Your new virtual machine will appear as a tab with the name you given to it while creating it. Below is a snapshot of my newly created virtual machine for Windows 8 with all details.

• Click on the “power on virtual machine”.

• After your virtual machine is powered on, you need to provide the path of the windows 8 .iso image file to start the booting process.
• Select VM from the menu bar.
• Select removable devices from sub menu.
• Select CD/DVD (IDE) and click on settings.

• The virtual machine settings dialog box opens.
• In the hardware tab, select CD/DVD(IDE).
• In the connection Field, select the option “use iso image file”.
• Click browse and navigate to the folder in which window image file(.iso) is located. Select the .iso file and click ok.
• Click ok to close the virtual machine settings dialog box.
• Now Restart the virtual machine.

Sit back and relax. Now you are all set to see the first screen of windows 8.

• After loading of some files, the screen shown above appears. Nothing new here. If you could recollect it is same as that of Windows 7. You will see some other screens similar to that of Windows 7. Just keep clicking next.
• Now there is something new. It is the first new look of windows 8. Enter a name of your choice.

You can choose between windows live Id or local account. With Windows Live id, you can log in to your copy of Windows 8 by using a email id and password. I choose local account.

Fill in all the details.

Sit back and relax. You are ready to see a new world. And here it comes. Awesome isn’t it? Welcome to windows 8.

Once you have completed all the steps, you will have Windows 8 installed on VMware. This will co-exist with your main operating system, that could be Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7.

VMWare is a popular commercial virtualization software. This is one of the most popular virtualization software used in industry. However, VMWare is quite pricey, and if you are a small company, you might want to start with a free virtualization software. Thankfully, there are many good free virtualization software available.Here are free alternatives to VMWare that provide some of the similar features.

1. VirtualBox

VirtualBox is the best free alternative to VMWare. VirtualBox is a full featured free and open source virtualization software. VirtualBox comes from SUN (now Oracle), so you can expect industry standard commercial features, but still free.  VirtualBox supports almost all popular operating systems, including, Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris.

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Works With: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

2. Xen Hypervisor

Xen Hypervisor is another good free alternative to VMWare. Xen Hypervisor is another free and open source virtualization software. Unlike VirtualBox, Xen Hypervisor can be installed only on a Linux system, but supports all type of guest OS, like, Windows, Solaris, and BSD OS. Xen Hypervisor was collaboratively developed by a team that also comprised of 50 of data center solution vendors. So, it has features that directly benefit large scale virtualization.

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Works With:    Linux  

3.QEMU

QEMU is a good replacement for VMWare. QEMU is more of a machine emulator than virtualization software. It does supports virtualization too, but need either Xen Hypervisor or KVM Kernel module in Linux. As a machine emulator, it lets you run programs made in one OS to run in another OS. When used for virtualization, it executes guest code directly on host CPU, and thus gives near to native performance.

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A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It's like running a PC on your PC.

VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC. With its user-friendly interface, VMware Player makes it effortless for anyone to try out Windows 8 developer release, Windows 7, Chrome OS or the latest Linux releases, or create isolated virtual machines to safely test new software and surf the Web. VMware Player can also be used to run a virtual copy of an old PC so that you can recycle the old machines you have under your desk or stored in the closet.

This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines.

• Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC
• Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any installation or configuration hassles
• Share data between host computer and virtual machine
• Run 32- and 64-bit virtual machines
• Leverage 2-way Virtual SMP
• Use 3rd-party virtual machines and images
• Share data between host computer and virtual machine
• Broad host and guest operating system support
• Support for USB 2.0 devices
• Get appliance info at start-up
• Gain easy access to virtual machines via intuitive home page interface

The image is showing Windows 7 in Windows XP

Technical Specifications:

Title: VMware Player 4.0.2

Filename: VMware-player-4.0.2-591240.exe

File size: 116.40MB (122,054,136 bytes)

Requirements: Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64

Languages: en-US

License: Freeware

Author: VMware Inc (www.vmware.com)

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