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You have completed Linux Servers on VirtualBox!
You have completed Linux Servers on VirtualBox!
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First we'll need to download and install VirtualBox itself.
Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of VirtualBox can be downloaded from the VirtualBox site.
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First, we're going to need to download and
install the VirtualBox software.
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Just do a web search for VirtualBox,
and visit VirtualBox.org.
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Click on the downloads page.
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The computer that you'll be running
VirtualBox on is referred to as the host,
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whereas, the virtual operating system that
you'll be running on it is called guest.
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So we need to download a host platform for
our particular OS.
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I'm running on Mac, so
I'll click on the OS X hosts link.
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It'll begin downloading a disk image, and
then I just click on that to open it.
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Okay, and as the instructions say here,
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I'm just going to double click on this
icon and it'll run the installer.
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Okay, I'm going to confirm that
the installation can proceed.
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I'll type my password.
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And click Close when it's complete.
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Then as it suggests,
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I'm going to go to my Applications folder
and run the VirtualBox application.
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Double click VirtualBox.app to run it, and
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now VirtualBox is installed and
ready for us to install Linux on.
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