![]() So just go ahead and configure the OS that you choosed to use.For software testing purpose, I am trying to duplicate one of our customers network environment. That is all! if you did everything correct you should now see the machine start up and show the Windows Server 2012 R2 Settings prompt: In the left window select the machine we just created “Windows 2012 R2” and then press the start button. ![]() So simply press on “Create” to create your virtual machine based on the “.vhd” image.Ĭongratulations! You now succesfully created a virtual machine by using a existing “.vhd” image. Select the image file as I did on the picture above and press the “Open” button, and you should see the image name now on the previous window where you pressed the yellow folder: ![]() When you pressed the yellow folder you should see a screen to choose the “.vhd” image file as below: (this window might look different depending on your os) Now on this window is the important step to actually use the “.vhd” image that you wish to use so choose the option “Use an existing virtual hard drive file” and then press the yellow folder as shown below: Now press the “Next” button again and you see the following window: On the window above you specify how much memory you wish to assign to the virtual machine, as you can see I did 8gb but please choose what you feel fits your environment. Now assuming you follow this guide and user the Windows 2012 R2 image you fill this window in like this:Īfter this you press on the “Next” button and you should see a Window like this: You should now see a popup screen that looks like this: Press the “New” button in the right top of your VirtualBox program, the button should look like this: Simply in whatever os you are start VirtualBox. ![]() Once you did sign in at the download options you choose: VHD I use in this guide the vhd image that Microsoft provides for their Windows 2012 R2 server, you can download this at: In this small guide below I will show you how you can use a vhd image file with VirtualBox. ![]()
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