No More VirtualBox with windows 8.1

Actually this is a very simple and recommended way of using virtual machine in windows 8 .Furthermore it can defined as an attractive way of getting our job done. No more virtualbox or no more duel boot needed.

What you all need to do is select a particular place in your hard disk and create a folder called Hyper-V then open hyper-v manager (search on your start).Then simply you will get below window .Now you need to click on your PC name (Underlined)

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Then you will get the extended Hyper-V Manager ;) 

Go to hyper-v settings->server->Virtual Hard Disk and give the path to your previously created Hyper-V folder and your location should be like this

E:\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks

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Also go to hyper-v settings->server->Virtual Machine and give the path to your previously created Hyper-V folder and your location should be like this

E: \Hyper-V\Virtual Machines

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Click apply & ok

Now go and check your Hyper-V folder and you may see it contains two new folders called Virtual Hard Disk & Virtual Machine.

Now it’s the time to download Ubuntu IOS .Go to www.ubuntu.com and download it, If you need you can go to my previous VirtualBox post and use the download link it provides).

Now it’s the time to create a new virtual machine .Go to new->virtual machine as the below image indicate.

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Then you will get the below window.

 

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Go to next and give a preferred meaningful name to your virtual machine in my case I have used Ubuntu-14.04.1 and I named my virtual machine as Ubuntu 14  .

      

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Click nextà next à

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Now you need to allocate the memory. I have allocated the 1024MB for the startup memory.

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Click next. For the moment I am not going to configure the networking part so click next .And now we need to assign a size for our virtual hard disk.Here I have allocate 30GB for the virtual hard disk.

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Click next

I am going to install my OS later so click next.

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And as the final step in the wizard click next & finishJ

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Now you will get this window

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Right click on your virtual machine and go to settings

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Click on add legacy network adapter (it will be helpful in establishing network connectivity, probably be the next post ;-)) and click add. Then apply .

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Then click on Network adapter and click remove and apply.

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Now go to IDE Controller 1 and select DVD Drive .then select image file and browse your image file. and click on apply .

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Go to automatic start action under Management under management and select nothing and click apply.

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Select automatic stop action select shut down the guest operating system and click on apply and ok.

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Now right click on your virtual machine and click on start and connect

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                      Click on install Ubuntu.

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Click on continue

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Click on install now

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Click on ENTER

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If you need to shut down or save your machine status you can use these buttons. Now the things almost done .Enjoy your virtual machine J