From the course: Virtualization: Configuring VMs Across Platforms with VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and KVM
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Requirements for using VirtualBox
From the course: Virtualization: Configuring VMs Across Platforms with VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and KVM
Requirements for using VirtualBox
- VirtualBox is available for all the main operating systems. But before you get started with it, please check the requirements. So these requirements are, to start with, you need a 64 bit Intel or AMD CPU. ARM is poorly supported at the moment. So if you are using MacOS with ARM, I wouldn't go for VirtualBox. Better use VMware Fusion or Parallels desktop instead. This is something that may have changed by the time you are watching this, but in my last test, I haven't been able to get stable behavior of VirtualBox on Apple Silicon. You need to gigabytes or more on your computer. Obviously, if you want to do real virtualization, two gigabytes is really tight. I would say go for eight gigabytes or more, be conveniently using your virtualization solution. And you need 300 megabytes of disk space for just the insulation of VirtualBox, and then 10 gigabytes of disk space for each virtual machine. In the next videos, you'll learn how to install VirtualBox on the different platforms.
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