Installing Linux in a Virtual Machine - Getting your first taste

In this video I’m going to show you how to actually install Linux in a safe virtual environment on your computer. I’m also going to explain how virtual machines work and why you should master this basic skill to help you increase your security and privacy

This is so you can test it out, work with it and even destroy that virtual environment completely. Do this before jumping full ship or bricking your computer.

I’m going to show you this on my Linux PC but the steps will mostly be the same on Windows.

We’re going to install virtualbox which is a virtual machine hypervisor. What this means, it’s a manager for building virtual machines which simulate real hardware, but virtually. THere are tens of diferent hypervisors out there such out of which most are open source like KVM, xen, virtualbox, there are also paid ones like vmware,

How this works is your cpu has a set of instructions

The whole internet works on virtualization technology to split up a big server with 32 processor cores and 256 GB of ram into smaller machines. (show video)

This creates a safe environment for you to test anything and everything. And I recommend this for installing untrusted software. SInce you can easily backup, destroy and remake the system. I’ll show you how.

Go to VIrtualBox.com

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On linux I just go to the command line and type sudo apt install virtualbox or use the built in package manager. SO already, this is much easier on Linux. Personally, I don’t use virtualbox anymore, but have used if for 15 years. I use something specific Linux, but will show you how to use VirtualBox because it’s easy

Follow the installation steps.

You may also need the extension pack in certain cases for extended virtual machine functionality.

Liked this? GOod, you can use almost the same steps to install it on your PC for real. Before installing linux for real, make a backup of everything on a secondary drive as the installation process will most likely result in a complete wipe of your hard drive. DOn’t use the cloud for backups unless they’re fully encrypted with something like

There are ways to have dual boot installers which means when you start your pc that you get to choose if you want to use either linux or windows but I don’t recommend that If you want you can always have a virtual machine of Windows on your PC.

Part 3

Using Whonix for increased privacy in a VM