Click the folder icon with the small green up arrow, and select the Windows 10 ISO file that you downloaded at the beginning of this process.Īfter a short time (or maybe long, depending on the speed of your computer), your VirtualBox window should now show the Windows 10 installation program. Another Virtual Machine window should appear, which prompts you to select a virtual optical disk file. Now click the Start button in the Virtual Box Manager window. On the new few screens, select to create a virtual hard disk now, VDI file type, dynamically allocated, and 20 GB in size (go larger if you intend to install significant other software besides Purple Pen otherwise 20 GB is enough.) On the next screen, I recommend 4096MB Memory Size. Select Type as "Microsoft Windows" and Version as "Windows 10 (64-bit)". From the Virtual Box Manager window, click "New". If that happens, allow the system extension to be installed through Settings, and run the installation again. For Mac, the installation may at first be blocked from installing a system extension. Browse to Click the large "Download" button, then download one of the platform packages, either "OSX hosts" for a Mac, or "Linux distributions" for Linux. Once you have the Windows 10 ISO file on your host computer, you need to install VirtualBox. To download this ISO file, I recommend reading the following article and following the instructions: If that site no longer exists, try downloading the Windows 10 download tool at
This is a very large file (around 4 GB), which can be treated by Virtual Box as a DVD disc. You will need approximately 20 GB of free disk space on your host computer.įirst, you need to download a copy of Windows 10 in the form of an "ISO" file a file with the. Your main computer and operating system (Linux or Mac OS X) is called the "host" computer.
#Setup virtualbox on mac for linux how to#
This document gives an overview on how to set this up. Within that virtual machine, you can run a copy of Windows, and inside that copy of Windows, download and run Purple Pen.
#Setup virtualbox on mac for linux mac os x#
Using VirtualBox to run Purple Pen on Mac OS X or LinuxĪlthough Purple Pen is a Windows-only program, you can use the free Virtual Box program to run a virtual machine on your Mac or Linux computer.
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