Hi everyone,

Today I took the time and wrote my own walkthrough of the VirtualBox installation on a Windows system.

This guide deals with the installation of VirtualBox and the setup of a Virtual Machine suitable for FreeBSD 8.1 - hope this is helpful to somebody! enjoy!

This guide has been reproduced on a Windows XP Home SP3 computer and everything works fine.

1. Go to http://www.freebsd.org/where.html

2. Scroll down to 'Download FreeBSD'

3. For most cases you need the i386 ISO image

4. At time of writing this, the most current version is 8.1 Release – download the file

FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and save it somewhere on your Desktop for Easy

access (it's about 650MB)

5. Go to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

6. Click x86/amd64 – for most cases this is what you need (Windows users!)

7. The latest version at the time of writing is VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-Win.exe for the

Windows version

8. Save this also to your desktop

9. Find the saved file on your Desktop or wherever you saved it to

10. Double click VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-Win.exe to start the VirtualBox installation

- If Windows asks you if it's safe to execute the file, click 'Yes' this is typical

11. Click Next

12. Click 'I accept the terms in the License Agreement' and 'Next'

13. Take the default options (don't change anything!) and click 'Next'

14. Again take the default options for the Shortcuts and click 'Next'

15. Next there is a Warning for resetting the Network Interfaces on the computer. To be clear

this means that for a couple of minutes you may lose internet connectivity. Again this is

normal and it will only happen this once on the installation. Click 'Yes' to continue

16. Click 'Install' to begin the installation

17. Installation should look like this -

18. Windows is warning you that the software you are trying to install hasn't been tested – this is

normal so click 'Continue' to proceed (yes this message is in Greek since my Windows XP is

Greek-you'll see this message in your OS's default language!!!) You may get lots of

warnings – this is normal, just click continue on all of the warnings

19. You may get a warning like this.. 'VirtualBox Bridged Networking Driver Miniport' this is

normal

20. You may get a warning like this.. 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter' this is normal

21. Make sure the 'Start Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.10 after installation' is ticked – Click 'Finish

Read my next guide for the Virtual Box Machine setup for the FreeBSD image you downloaded!