


(32-bit version),but the player will check your physical memory and Increase the memory to at least 1,500 MBytes When you click on Customizing Hardware you seeĪll you can change. If you decide to create a Windows 8 VM you need to add some more memory to the VM.In the case of Ubuntu you do not need to changed You have the option of changing the settings for the VM selectingĬustomizing Hardware. The Player shows a dialog for you to check your prior decisions are shown here. You are ready to create your Virtual Machine.Give it a name, and choose a disk capacity (accept. Click Next and you will be asked to select a guest OS (the OS you are creating the VM for), as shown here for Ubuntu and Windows 8, and click next.Lower memory and hard drive requirements. Use the Windows 8.1 32-bit even if your PC is 64-bit because it has a On how to login and download software fromn DreamSpark. You can download a full version of Windows 8.1 as a student in this course from Microsoft DreamSpark. Of course it could also be Windows 8.1 as in this example.This is possible because Ubutu distributions are free. You can also download a copy of a 14.04 LTS VM for It could have been from a DVD or CD where you had the OSĭistribution. In our example an ISO file that I downloaded to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (You can download it hereįor you PC. Will see a first dialog asking you to tell the source for the OS you To create a new VM click on Create a Virtual Machine and you.Double-click on the VMware Player 6 to open it and you will see what is shown in this image.Accept the creation of virtual networkĪdapters as the installation asks you to do so. Once you download the VMware Player 6 install it as any.

You can download VMware Player 6 from a link in its Web page.In addition you can also see how to install Virtual Box in OS X, and then install Windows 8, at this Microsoft page. Here is a Virtual Box Manual and a You-Tube video of creating a Windows 7 VM in OS X. There are other tutorials on how to do the same using Oracle Virtual Box. Particularly to create a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and a Windows 8 VM in This tutorial cover the basics on how to do so using VMware Player 6,

You can see here an overview of hypervisors. There are many tutorials on how to create a virtual machine in Windows to run other operating systems.
