There are plenty of things that I want to try in a sandbox VM before I let them anywhere near even a development environment. Even if I didn’t use it constantly for blogging, I would still need it for trying things to see how they work before advising clients.

These instructions should never be used to build a development, test, qa, or any other environment. More robustness is required for any other kind of environment.

The first thing to know about building a VM is that you’re a user doing admin-level tasks with one or more pieces of software. Things are going to go wrong. You’re likely to have to errors and try again.

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Building a new VM can be frustrating – patience, troubleshooting, and perseverance are all called for. First, Build a Linux VM The instructions are going to vary here depending on your distribution. For sandboxes, Ubuntu is free and easy. You can download it here: This version comes with all the desktop stuff, but honestly, being able to run a web browser can be useful from time to time on a sandbox. The download comes as an.iso file. You can use your favorite (free or not) VM software to create a new VM. I used to use Oracle Virtual Box, but recently switched to VMWare Workstation Player, and am enjoying it a lot.

You do not need a paid version of the VM software simply to create VMs for your own use. You may need it to do anything more advanced than that or to share VMs. You can download VMWare Workstation Player here: I’m keeping the instructions general so whatever software you have available can be used. Download driver scanner plustek opticpro p12 windows 7. Once you have the VM software installed, you can create a new VM, and specify the ISO of Ubuntu or other Linux distribution to install on the VM.

The choices are fairly simple for VMWare, and straight forward. You will also want to install the VMWare (or Virutal Box) tools on on the VM.

This will make nifty things like easy resizing and copy/paste to/from the VM work well and mostly seamlessly. You will have to choose how much memory and disk to give the VM – your choices there will depend on what computer you’re installing it on and what else you’re running there. Remember to leave some memory for the host OS.

I generally do 4 GB, but I think you could get by with 2. I have a laptop with 16 GB of memory and never really run more than 2 VMs at once (one Windows and one Linux) in addition to the host operating system.