In this part of the Virtual Lab setup, we will look at how to clean the image up before generalizing and packing it back up to its install state age. To get started, if you haven’t already, you need to run Windows update. This will save a whole bunch of time later, for when you start a new machine up from this image. This may take some time and several…
server 2012 on virtualbox
Virtual Lab Setup: Server 2012 on VirtualBox – Part 1
Setting up Oracle VirtualBox for Server 2012 Standard First of all, Microsoft recommend the following hardware requirements for running Server 2012: ComponentMinimumRecommendedProcessor1.4 GHz2 GHz or fasterMemory512 MB RAM2 GB RAM or greaterDisk Space32 GB40 GB or greaterFor my installation using Oracle’s VirtualBox, I opted to have 2GB RAM and 2 CPU cores, however a much smaller disk space of 25GB. To create a new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, simply…