VirtualBox Manager HomepageĪfter completing all of the steps above your virtual machine will be created. You should change this to 12.00 GB as shown in the image below.Īfter entering 12.00 GB click the Create button. You will want to adjust the size of the virtual hard disk.

The file location for the VirtualBox you will leave as the default value. This will offer you more flexibility with regards to the virtual machine hard disk usage. If you are creating your own personal Virtual Machine after this class, you may want to use a dynamically sized hard disk. However, this slows down the entire Virtual Machine because of the flexible nature of the hard disk size.įor this reason you will be using the Fixed size for your virtual hard disk.Īfter selecting the Fixed size option click Next. VirtualBox allows you to dynamically add more space to your Hard Disk. You will be using the VirtualBox preferred VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) which should be the default value.Īfter confirming the VDI option click Next. Leave the first setting on the default value Create a virtual hard disk now. You will be creating a new VirtualBox managed virtual hard disk.

Luckily, VirtualBox will perform this formatting for us after completing the wizard. However, this hard disk space needs to be formatting in a way that allows for an operating system to function. Similar to the RAM of your Virtual Machine you need to provide a certain amount of hard disk space from the Host operating system. Make sure to provide at least 2048 MB of RAM.Īfter entering 2048 into the textbox click the Next button. We don’t recommend this, because it’s difficult to be precise. You could also use the slider bar to configure the amount of RAM to provide to the Virtual Machine.

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