After the download, I am now the proud owner of : …before we’re presented with a choice of 32 or 64-bit :

In this case, I simply want to try Windows 10 so I need to go to this page.

Microsoft provides an ISO for a 180-day evaluation version of Windows Server here. Finding a Windows ISOĭepending on which Windows edition you are after, there are a couple of places you can look. The Guest OS I’m installing is, as you’d expect, Windows 10. NOTE – steps to install VirtualBox on a Debian-based host such as Ubuntu can be found here. The Host OS I’m running is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Persuading VirtualBox to use a sensible screen size for your new VM.

The following steps will work for VirtualBox on any host – Linux, Mac, even Windows.

The answer is, of course, yes – otherwise this would be quite a short post. If, like me, you’re OS of choice is Ubuntu but you need to test how something behaves in Windows – is it possible to knock up an appropriate environment ? These days, you even have access to an Ubuntu sub-system in Windows itself. There are lots of guides out there on how to set up and run Ubuntu in VirtualBox on a Windows host.

How to install windows 10 virtualbox