Installing an OS in a virtual machine
Computer Studies · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
A step-by-step VirtualBox lab: host and guest, RAM you can spare, boot from an ISO, snapshot, and the mistakes that restart the installer or freeze the host.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- What an operating system is, and what it does
- Classifying operating systems, and choosing one
- Installing an operating system, and managing files
- Drivers, interrupts and the kernel
- Process management in practice
- Memory management and virtual memory
- File systems, paths and permissions
- Buffering, spooling and device management
- Using CLI and GUI together
- Installing an OS in a virtual machine
- User accounts, passwords and permissions
- Choosing and living with an operating system