The Windows 10 virtual machine was created in VirtualBox in the last post. Before actually installing Windows 10, we’ll look at a few of the settings. The one thing that we can do before installing Windows 10 is to acquire a copy of it by downloading a 90-day trial version from the Microsoft Evaluation Center for Windows and then mounting the ISO file on the virtual optical drive.

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General

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System

You might decide to add another CPU core or increase the RAM. I increased the RAM before taking the screenshot below.

Dispaly

We can just leave the defaults as is.

Storage

Here is where we need to mount the ISO file. You can download a 90-day trial version from Microsoft Evaluation Center. If you do the download, be sure to choose Choose/Create a Virtual Optical Disk.

Audio

We can just leave the defaults as is.

Network

We can just leave the defaults as is.

Serial Ports

We can just leave the defaults as is.

USB

We can just leave the defaults as is.

Shared Folders

We can just leave the defaults as is.

User Interface

We can just leave the defaults as is.