

However, after installing Windows 10 on such a virtual machine, you will face extremely poor performance in the guest OS. It fits the official system requirements, so everything should be fine. However, using a pre-allocated (fixed size) disk image will speed up your guest OS a little. I am using a dynamically expanding virtual disk to save space on my real hard drive. It is OK to use VDI as the hard drive image format.

The virtual hard drive will get 50 GB of disk space. Select Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit) and fill in the machine name box.īy default, VirtualBox will dedicate 1 GB of RAM for a 32-bit Windows 10 machine, and 2 GB for its 64-bit version. Now, let's create a new Windows 10 machine in VirtualBox and see which settings it will use by default.Ĭlick on the File - > New Machine to open the new machine wizard. Processor:ġ gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoCġ gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit Let's start with official Windows 10 system requirements, which are as follows.
