You need to install the Guest Additions to allow you move your mouse freely between your VM and your physical desktop machine and also resize the VM desktop resolution.

You can skip the sign-in bit and start using your OS.

Click on your desired Language / Keyboard Layout.

Next login with the password provided when you downloaded the image file.

Start the virtual machine > Ensure the first option as seen below is select.

Click the small folder icon and navigate to the image file directory where you unzipped it to.

On Next, select “Use an existing virtual hard disk file”.

On Next, enter desired memory size (recommend 1024mb).

Version: Select Red Hat (64bit) or Red Hat (32bit) depending on the Image file version downloaded earlier.

Start your Virtualbox > Click on New and Enter details as follows.

Please ONLY use these image files for testing purposes and not on a LIVE environment Unzip the file using 7zip to a dedicated folder

Download the latest Virtualbox VDI Image file from OSBoxes.

First install a VirtualBox on your machine (Windows or Linux).In other words, users can spin up multiple virtual machines of any desired OS within minutes of each other as long as the underlining machine machine spec can handle the load. VirtualBox is free, open source software that allows users to run multiple operating systems on their machine from within a single machine.

Thanks to the great work done by the team at OSBoxes The majority of the work has been done for us as they have provided a ready-to-go VDI Image file for the major Linux Distros which are all up to the latest stable builds. To do this, I will be showing you the fastest way to have a CentOS 7 machine up and running without spending any money. I will be writing HowTo tutorials on my blog that will require me to install CentOS 7 on a virtualbox.

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