An Easy Way to Create a Virtual Machine
In one of my video podcasts, I showed the viewers how to remove a virus without the use of a virus scanner.
To demonstrate this, I obviously didn’t want to infect my own computer. While I could have used a test computer as a sacrificial goat but I don’t want to have to install XP every time I want to test something. So, I used something called a “Virtual Machine”.
In this article, I’ll show you an easy way to create your own virtual machine.
A Virtual machine software is an application that emulates real hardware. A software based test PC if you will. This allows me to install Windows XP as I normally would on a real PC, but within the virtual machine software. Basically, I could run a copy of Windows XP inside my main Windows XP install that I use day to day.
To create a virtual machine, we need to install a Virtual Machine Player. There is a great free one called “VM Ware Player” which you can download here (or here if you want to skip the survey stuff, but it may be an older version).
Once you have downloaded and installed the player we need to create a virtual machine environment. You can easily do this by visiting EasyVMX.com.
Once at the Easy VMX site, we need to fill in some options. For this example I am going to create a Windows Vista virtual machine that I can run within my Windows XP.
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