We currently package our virtual machines for four different virtualization software options: VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Parallels. Windows 10 Enterprise - 20.
- Virtual Machine For Windows 10 Host
- Windows 10 Built In Virtual Machine
- Run Virtual Machine On Windows 10
You can Create and Run Virtual Machine In Windows 10 with Hyper-V. Hyper-V is the inbuilt feature in Windows 10 Operating System. This feature is not available in windows 7 and Windows 8 comes with this virtualization feature. You can Install and Run Multiple Operating system on single PC with the help of virtual machine. There is no need to install any third party software to create Virtual Machine in Windows 10.
On a virtual machine you can run any operating system you like, so long as it's compatible with the virtualisation software you're using. It could be a second copy of Windows 10, but it could also. Although one of the options is a Windows 10 OS, it’s not a free license for Windows, but an evaluation copy that expires in a few days. Select Ubuntu Linux from the list and click Create Virtual Machine. Windows will now automatically download and install the operating system. The installer will run, the virtual machine will restart, some other stuff will install, the virtual machine will restart, and then you'll be looking at the Windows 10 setup. The following details reflect English Windows Pro, October 2018 update. It's possible your setup process will differ.
Create and Run Virtual Machine In Windows 10
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Virtual Machine For Windows 10 Host
- How to Create Virtual Machine In Windows 7.
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- How to Install Linux on Windows 7 Using Virtual Box.
- How to Create Virtual Server In Windows Server R2 Using Hyper-V.
Suppose you want to use two or more then two operating system at a time. Then you need another PC for each Operating system and other hardware resources. but with the help of Virtualization you can do this on single PC.
Note –First of all you will have to Enable Virtualization Technology from BIOS.
How to Enable Hyper-V
1. First of all Type Windows features in Search box. then Click on Turn Windows Features on or Off.
or
Go to Control Panel => Programs and Features => Turn Windows features on or off.
2. Now on the Turn Windows features on or off dialog box, expand Hyper-V. Then Select Hyper-V management Tools and Hyper-VPlatform check box. Now Click on OK.
3. Now it take few second to enable and apply change. After complete it will ask to Restart PC. Then Click on Restart Now.
4. After Restart PC, Type in search box hyper-v manager. then Click on Hyper-V Manager App to launch it.
5. Now on the Hyper-V manager windows you will see your Computer name. Click on ADMIN-IT (Local host name) then you will there is many option available for setup virtual machine. You will have to create Virtual network switch to create virtual machine.
Now Right-Click on Computer name ( ADMIN-IT) then Click on Virtual Switch Manager.
6. Now on the Virtual Switch manager windows, In Type virtual Switch section select External. then Click on Create Virtual Switch Button.
7. Now on the next windows, Give the name of the virtual switch. then make sure External network radio button selected and Select Network adapter which is connected with your network. Now Click on Ok button. then Click on Yes on Popup dialog box.
Now you have been created Technet2u Virtual Switch.
Create Virtual Machine
8. Now to create Virtual machine, Again Right-Click on Computer name (ADMIN-IT) then Click on New. and then Click on Virtual Machine.
9. Now Click on Next button on the Before You Begin windows.
10. Now type the name of the Virtual Machine. If you want to store Virtual Machine on Different location then select Store the Virtual machine in a different location. Browse location where you wish to install. and then Click on Next.
11. Now to If you install Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 or later version then you need to select Generation 2. And if you want to install Windows 7 , 32 or 64 bit then you will have to select Generation 1.
In my case i am going to install Windows 10, then Select Generation 2 and then Click on Next.
12. Now on the Assign Memory section assign the memory size for the Technet2u Virtual Machine.
13. Now on the Configuring Networking section, Click on connection drop-down menu. Then select Virtual Switch (Technet2u Virtual Switch) which is created. and then Click on Next.
14. Now on the Connect Virtual Hard disk section. Create Virtual Disk and Specify space then Click on Next.
15. Now on the Installation option Section, Select Install an operating system from a bootable image file radio button. then Browse you Operating system ISO File. Then Click on Next.
16. Now Click on Finish.
Run Virtual Machine In Windows 10
17. Now you will see that Technet2u Virtual Machine has been created. Then Right-Click on it then Click on Connect.
18. Now You will see Technet2u Virtual Machine Turn off by default. You need to Start it manually. then Click on Start(Green) Button to turn on .
19. Now Virtual machine getting start. After start you can Install Operating System In Virtual Machine.
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.Run a full Windows 10 computer on your Mac (or Linux!) computer, legally and for free. Test websites on IE11 and Edge with full access to browser developer tools, at full speed & with confidence that you're seeing exactly what your Windows users see.
This article is part of a series on running cross-browser tests directly on your primary computer. The first in the series is Set Up Simulator and Test iOS Mobile Safari on Mac.
According to one well known source of desktop browser marketshare data, in November 2018 Internet Explorer usage was at 2.8% in the United States and 5.05% worldwide; Edge usage was at 2.15% in the United States and 4.25% worldwide. Not much perhaps compared to the leader Chrome (61.77% in the U.S., 49.13% worldwide) or even the runner up Safari (15.09% in the U.S., 32.38% worldwide). But that means as many as 1 in 20 United States users could be using either IE or Edge, and that means it's well worth considering testing your site in Microsoft browsers. (Each site's audience is different, and the decision to spend time and money to make grumpy IE11 match a comp should be made with that site's traffic in mind.)
Internet Explorer and Edge only run on Microsoft operating systems. For front-end developers and quality assurance testers on Mac or Linux computers, those browsers are often tested when development is nearly finished, using a paid web app such as BrowserStack or CrossBrowserTesting aimed at visual QA more than debugging or high-fidelity UX testing.
Windows 10 Built In Virtual Machine
A Windows 10 'virtual machine' (VM) —in lay terms, think a full additional computer in an app on your computer— puts full true Microsoft browser testing at your fingertips.
This guide will get you set up with a Windows 10 VM. It takes 30-40 minutes, plus the time to download a 5GB disk image. You will need at least 25GB of disk space, but 50GB is recommended to give Windows 10 space to grow over time. You'll use free software, including a full copy of Windows 10 provided for free by Microsoft.
Get set up to run 'virtual machines'
There are various tools out there for running virtual machines (VMs). We'll use VirtualBox - it's free, it works great, it's being actively developed, and it's available for every operating system.
- Download VirtualBox
- Run the VirtualBox installer
Get Windows 10
Installers come on physical media (DVDs or thumb drives) or in disk image files (typically
.iso
) You'll use .iso
files for your VirtualBox VMs. Microsoft provides Windows 10 iso
for free! Go to the Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File) page. You'll be asked to make some choices:- Select your processorDon't know if your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit? It's probably 64-bit. Apple for example hasn't made a 32-bit computer since 2011. If you have a Mac, you can double check by going to the Apple menu and selecting 'About This Mac': if the 'Processor' is Core Duo it's 32-bit, anything else is 64; if you have a PC, you'll just have to look it up!
Create your virtual machine
- Fill out the 'Name.' Using the OS as the name is a good convention, and will help you keep track of things later on. And if you name the VM after the OS, VirtualBox will automatically select the 'Type' and 'Version'.
- On the next screen, bump the 'Memory size.' The default is 2048MB (2GB). 4096MB (4GB) is a good place to start. If your computer has at least 16GB of RAM, consider giving 8192MB (8GB) to the virtual machine. You can always change this later if you find it makes your actual computer too slow when the virtual is running.
- On the next two screens, follow the defaults for:
- 'Hard disk' ('create a virtual disk')
- 'Hard disk file type' (VDI)
- For 'Storage on physical hard disk,' choose 'Dynamically allocated.' With this setting, the amount of space your virtual machine takes up on your real machine depends on exactly what virtual machine needs. With a 'fixed size' virtual machine, the virtual machine reserves the amount of storage you specify even if you specify more than it needs. Dynamic allocation has a significant long-term benefit: you'll be able to non-destructively modify the maximum size setting. This is relevant to Windows 10, which in my experience will need more and more storage, even if you don't install anything new. In about a year and a half, I saw one Windows 10 virtual machine's needs increase by about 15GB. Because it was 'fixed size,' I was not able to change the disk size without losing data.
- The 'File location and size' gives you an opportunity to change where on your computer you keep the files related to this VM. I do not recommend renaming the virtual hard disk file — historically, depending on the operating system, that could confuse things. But if you want to change the location, click the folder icon and select the location. I keep my VMs in a 'VMs' folder in my home folder.
For the 'Size,' stick with the default 50GB. Remember that thanks to dynamic storage allocation your virtual machine should end up taking less space than this — expect a final size of around 20GB. - Hit 'Create'!
- In VirtualBox's sidebar, select your new 'Windows 10' and then click on the large gear 'Settings' button.
- In General > Advanced,
- set the clipboard to bidirectional shared
- and set drag'n'drop to bidirectional shared
- In Network > Adapter 1 switch from 'NAT' to 'Bridged Adapter'. This will give your virtual machine access to any local servers running on the host.
- Note that in System > Motherboard you can up the memory, and in System > Processor you can increase the number of processors. The default 1 works well for me, but if you want to play around with things that's where to do it.
- In General > Advanced,
Put Windows on the VM
When you're done with the settings, hit okay. Now double click on your VM in the VirtualBox sidebar. Click the 'browse' icon, and locate the
.iso
you downloaded.At this point I recommend closing all other apps that take a lot of memory.
Installation
Hit 'Start', and you should see the Windows 10 installer start up. Follow the installer.
- When asked to 'Activate Windows' with a product key, select 'I don't have a product key.'
- When asked to select your edition, I choose Pro. The N versions do not include Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, and Windows DVD Maker, in compliance with European Commision anti-trust regulation. There are plenty of articles out there on the difference between Home, Pro, Education, and all the rest. For me a key difference is that Pro allows you to install Windows updates on your own schedule, whereas with Home they must be installed within a day. Of course it's always good to now wait on installing system upgrades, but in my case I fire up Windows 10 every couple months to check some front-end oddity, and don't want to worry that I might be forced to run an upgrade.
- When asked to choose your installation type, say 'Custom.' This doesn't try to migrate anything from an existing install.
- You should have only one option for where to install Windows 10. Install it! The installer will run, the virtual machine will restart, some other stuff will install, the virtual machine will restart, and then you'll be looking at the Windows 10 setup.
- The following details reflect English Windows Pro, October 2018 update. It's possible your setup process will differ.
- Confirm your region and your keyboard layout when asked to. When asked to choose between 'set up for personal use' and 'set up for an organization' choose personal.
- You'll be asked to sign in with a Microsoft account. If you don't want your virtual machine connected to a Microsoft account, don't worry: we'll walk through removing it later. For now, if you don't have an account, create one:
- Click 'create account'
- Click 'Get a new email address'
- For the email address, I use a password manager to generate a few words strung together with periods
- For the alternate address, I create a second new email (for example with Gmail or another new Outlook account)
- I go with not having an enhanced online experience and not receiving promotional emails.
- The installer will chug away for a little bit, and then you'll have to create a PIN.
- Next up is a request link to your phone. I choose 'Do it later.'
- Then the installer pushes OneDrive. I choose 'Only save files to this PC.'
- On the Cortana confirmation screen I 'Decline.' My hope is that this will save a little disk space.
- On the activity history screen, say 'No.'
- In the privacy settings, say 'No' to everything, and the 'Accept.'
That should be it for configuration. In a minute or two, after the installer spins for a bit, you should be looking at a Windows 10 computer! Now you can safely delete the Windows 10 disk image you downloaded at the start.
Post-installation
Now we'll remove that Microsoft account.
- Click the Windows icon in the taskbar
- Click the settings' gear icon
- Select 'Accounts'
- In 'Your Info,' scroll down and select 'Sign in with a local account instead'
- Fill in the password for the account you created, and then create a new account and password. This is the password you'll need to type every time you log into Windows 10. The login screen doesn't support pasting, so you'll want to make it something you can handle without relying on your password manager.
- Say 'Sign out and finish'
- Click or press any key to trigger the login dialog. Use your PIN or local password to log in. By default the PIN login is selected. If desired, switch to password login by clicking 'Sign-in Options' and then selecting the key icon.
- When Windows 10 starts up, it will probably report a problem connecting to OneDrive. Just close that warning.
Finish setting up your VM
It's time to introduce some VM lingo: the computer on which the VM is installed is called the host, and the VM is called the guest. In this case, the Windows 10 machine is the guest, and your physical computer's system is the host.
VirtualBox provides a set of tools to extend your VM's powers, do support things like copying text in the host and pasting in the guest. The tools are called Guest Additions. Install them!
- Up in the host's menubar, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image…
- The installer should run automatically. If it doesn't, click the folder icon in the taskbar to open the File Explorer. In the sidebar, expand 'This PC,' select 'CD Drive (D:) VirtualBox Guest Additions,' and double click on the app 'VBoxWindowsAdditions.'
- Follow the defaults, and restart the guest.
Get familiar with your VirtualBox VM
Sizing the VirtualBox window
VirtualBox has several display options, configurable from the host's View menu. Note that you must install the Guest Additions, above, for these to work correctly.
- By default, the guest appears in a window. Resizing the window changes the dimensions of the virtual screen.
- Auto-resize Guest Display, on by default, resizes the guest's dimensions to fit the window. If you uncheck it and decrease the host window's size, the guest's screen will stay the same and you'll be able to scroll around in the host window.
- Full screen makes the VM full screen. Great if you want to feel like you're really in the guest's OS.
- Seamless integrates the guest's windows with the host's. Useful when you need to see something on the guest and the host at the same time, and have limited screen real estate.
- Scaled puts the VM in a window, where the guest's screen stretches to fill the window. Handy if you need to zoom in. Hold shift when resizing the window to maintain the aspect ratio.
After playing around with the options, you might have trouble getting back to the defaults. The trick is to select no Mode option.
Run Virtual Machine On Windows 10
Switching between the host and the guest
When you're in a VirtualBox VM, all keystrokes are sent to the guest. To toggle this and send keystrokes to the host instead, hit the host key.
The current host key is named in the bottom right corner of the VM window. The icon immediately next to it, a downward-pointing arrow, indicates whether keystrokes are going 'down' into guest. If it's lit up green, keystrokes are going to the guest; otherwise keystrokes are going to the host.
Use the host key, for example, to switch to a different host app. I find this especially handy in full screen mode: I hit the host key, then trigger the host's app switcher.
The host key can be customized. In the host's menubar, select VirtualBox VM > Preferences > Input > Virtual Machine.
Shutting down and starting up
Think of your VM as a real computer. Just as you turn a physical computer off with the operating system's 'shut down' process, you should turn off your VM with its 'shut down' process. That means that to turn off your Windows VM you don't quit the VirtualBox instance, you send the shut down signal from the Windows menu: open the menu and, click the power icon, and choose to turn the computer off. VirtualBox will automatically close the container app.
To turn on a VirtualBox VM, open VirtualBox and either select your VM and hit the 'Start' button or simply double click the VM you want to start. You can also start the VM by opening its
.vbox
file. If you want to do that (for example, if you want to keep the VM in your Dock) and don't remember the location you chose back in the VM setup step, right on the VM in VirtualBox and choose the 'show' option.Get those browsers!
Your system is all set up! Windows 10 comes with Edge and Internet Explorer 11.
To access IE11, open the Windows menu and start typing 'internet explorer'. Once it's open, you can right-click its icon in the taskbar and select 'Pin to taskbar.'
Just for completeness, I like to install Chrome and Firefox. The process is familiar to anyone familiar with Windows, but that might not be you!
- With Edge, find the Chrome download link. Click download. Say you want to 'Run' the downloaded file. The Windows Defender icon will appear in the taskbar. Click it. Say 'Yes' to letting the installer modify your computer. Let the installer run. When Chrome opens, right-click on its icon in the taskbar, and select 'Pin to taskbar.'
- In one of your open browsers, find the Firefox download link. Again, download, choose 'Run,' click the blinking shield in the taskbar, say 'Yes,' and let the installer run. When Firefox opens, pin its icon to the sidebar.
I remove the Mail and Store icons from the taskbar: right click on them, and select 'Unpin from taskbar'.
I remove the Cortana search field from the taskbar: right click on an empty part of the taskbar, or on the Cortana search field, and in 'Cortana' select 'Hidden.'
There you go, you're ready to test any Windows 10 browser right from your own computer!