1 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:01,589 Hello the beautiful people. 2 00:00:01,589 --> 00:00:06,360 And welcome to this video where we're going to be getting you set up with virtual box on your computer. 3 00:00:06,390 --> 00:00:11,310 Now, virtual box is an amazing piece of software that allows you to run what are called virtual machines 4 00:00:11,310 --> 00:00:12,810 on your computer. 5 00:00:12,810 --> 00:00:17,730 Now, virtual machines, other than having a totally awesome sounding name, allow you to run virtual 6 00:00:17,730 --> 00:00:22,470 computers inside your computer without affecting your actual computer. 7 00:00:22,470 --> 00:00:26,760 So they are perfect for running things like new operating systems and trying them out without affecting 8 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,290 the way that your current computer works. 9 00:00:28,290 --> 00:00:33,060 So running a virtual machine through VirtualBox is going to create the perfect playground for us to 10 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:36,690 try out the Linux operating system without us affecting the way that your actual computer works. 11 00:00:36,690 --> 00:00:38,490 So nothing can actually go wrong. 12 00:00:38,490 --> 00:00:41,040 So it's the perfect playground for us to try out stuff with. 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,960 So what I want you to do is I want you to head over to the virtual box website, which is WW virtual 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,260 box dot org, forward slash wiki, forward slash downloads. 15 00:00:49,260 --> 00:00:53,160 I've put a link in the resources section for this video or you could just have it or you could just 16 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:58,200 head over to your favorite search engine and just search for virtual box download and it will likely 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,550 be the first link that comes up. 18 00:00:59,550 --> 00:01:02,910 And when you click it, you'll come to a page like this. 19 00:01:02,910 --> 00:01:10,440 Okay, now here you'll find some some links to some specific executable installer files that I want 20 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:11,070 you to download. 21 00:01:11,070 --> 00:01:11,270 Okay. 22 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,680 So if you're on Windows, I want you to click Windows hosts. 23 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,170 If you're on Mac, I want to click over ten hosts. 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:16,560 Okay. 25 00:01:16,650 --> 00:01:19,830 And if you want if you're already on Linux, you basically don't need to install Linux, do you? 26 00:01:19,830 --> 00:01:23,580 So you can just skip this entire section and move on to actual learning stuff. 27 00:01:23,580 --> 00:01:24,240 But here we are. 28 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:25,590 If you're on Windows, click Windows. 29 00:01:25,590 --> 00:01:29,190 If you're on Mac, click OS ten, but I'm on Windows, so I'm going to click that and it's going to 30 00:01:29,190 --> 00:01:31,380 download and install a file here. 31 00:01:31,380 --> 00:01:31,780 Okay. 32 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,000 Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to just save that in my downloads folder, but you can save that 33 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,140 wherever is best for you. 34 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:41,400 But I'm going to save that in my downloads folder and it's going to download an installer that's going 35 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,440 to install virtual box for us. 36 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:43,840 Okay. 37 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:48,690 So when that's going ahead and downloaded, which should be in just about 2 seconds or so. 38 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:50,480 There we are. 39 00:01:50,510 --> 00:01:51,200 It's downloaded. 40 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,760 I'm going to click that or head over to my downloads folder and double click that. 41 00:01:54,770 --> 00:01:55,100 However. 42 00:01:55,170 --> 00:01:57,060 However, I wish I could double click that. 43 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,220 It's going to be the same thing and it's going to open up this installer wizard, which we're just going 44 00:02:01,220 --> 00:02:03,200 to basically power through guys. 45 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,830 So I'm just going to click next here. 46 00:02:04,890 --> 00:02:09,860 Going to click next again and then it will ask you, where do you want to put some shortcuts? 47 00:02:10,250 --> 00:02:15,500 I'm just going to have a shortcut in my start menu and on the desktop, but I don't really want one 48 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:16,790 in the quick launch bar. 49 00:02:17,150 --> 00:02:18,620 But make sure you have this one here. 50 00:02:18,620 --> 00:02:22,610 Make sure whatever you choose, just don't uncheck register file associations. 51 00:02:22,610 --> 00:02:25,400 Just leave that with a tick that must stay the same. 52 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,980 But you play around with the others depending on how you want your system set up. 53 00:02:27,980 --> 00:02:29,270 Where do you want the shortcuts? 54 00:02:29,750 --> 00:02:30,380 It doesn't really matter. 55 00:02:30,380 --> 00:02:33,110 You can remove them any way, but you know your preference. 56 00:02:33,110 --> 00:02:33,920 Then go ahead and click. 57 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:34,610 Next. 58 00:02:34,610 --> 00:02:38,420 It's going to say, Hey, we might need to access your network interface. 59 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:40,730 Just say yes, don't worry about that whatsoever. 60 00:02:40,730 --> 00:02:42,220 And click install. 61 00:02:42,230 --> 00:02:43,730 It might give other pop ups. 62 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:49,040 Go ahead and click yes to any pop ups that come up or click install or just give it permission, whatever 63 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,570 it needs, just go ahead and do it. 64 00:02:51,170 --> 00:02:55,010 It's just going to be giving virtual virtualbox the ability to have your virtual machines access the 65 00:02:55,010 --> 00:02:57,110 Internet, which is usually a useful function. 66 00:02:57,740 --> 00:03:02,690 So just click yes to whatever it asks for, and then it will come to the installation complete screen, 67 00:03:02,690 --> 00:03:06,800 and there'll be a tick box here that says Start virtual box after installation. 68 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,230 Make sure that that has a tick in it and click finish and it will go ahead and open up the virtual box. 69 00:03:12,230 --> 00:03:13,160 So there you are, guys. 70 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,450 That's how you go ahead and install virtual box, nice and easy, click, click, click, click, click 71 00:03:17,450 --> 00:03:18,290 process. 72 00:03:18,830 --> 00:03:22,190 So now that we've gone ahead and install Virtual Box in the next video, I'm going to be showing you 73 00:03:22,190 --> 00:03:25,640 how you can set up your own Linux virtual machine. 74 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:27,260 So thanks for watching this video, guys. 75 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:29,360 You've now got virtual box installed on your machine. 76 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,190 Let's go ahead and set you up with Linux.