Due to this, virtual machine start booting the backtrack, it provide many options to boot but select the highlighted option in the image.ġ2. To select a start-up disk, you have to click on the box with green mark, then guide it to the location of the backtrack image file and select it.ġ1. Start the virtual machine and now it prompt to select a start-up disk.ġ0. In this dialog box, you can change the setting according to your needs.ĩ. Now right click on the option of virtual hard drive (in this case BT 5 R3) and select the settings. After click on create, your virtual hard drive is created. Type the name of the new virtual hard drive file and select the size of virtual hard drive.Ĩ. Choose whether the new hard drive file should be dynamically allocated or fixed in size.ħ. Choose the type of file you would like to use for the new virtual hard drive.Ħ. In this case, it is more preferable to create a new hard drive file.ĥ. If you want to add a virtual hard drive, you can either create a new hard drive or
Select the Random Access Memory (RAM) to be allocated to the virtual machine, choose the memory according to your computer specifications.Ĥ.
In the upper left corner of VirtualBox, a New button is provided click it to create a new virtual machine.Ĭhoose the name of the new virtual machine and also select the type and version of the operating system you intend to install (in this case backtrack is operating system). First, you to install Oracle VirtualBox on your computer, then open it.Ģ. To install Backtrack on a Virtual Machine following steps are required to follow:ġ.
VirtualBox is software which allowed us to install an operating system into another operating system means to install a guest operating system into the host operating system. Instead of Backtrack image, you can also use Live CD, Live USB, Hard Disk, Live Hardware. A Computer consists of any Operating System (windows is preferable).An Oracle VirtualBox (installed on the host) (download from here).Backtrack 5 ISO Image (download from its official website).It is pretty easy to do this, first, you have to gather a few things, which are described below: First, you to install Oracle VirtualBox on your computer, then open it.