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A Virtual Reality (Virtualization)

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I have been asked a few times how to get started in IT?  Thinking back at what sparked my enthusiasm for it... I remember downloading a bunch of different Linux distro ISO's and firing them up.  I would try different desktop environments and mess around with configurations, not always successfully.  When I did "break" the virtual machine I could just revert or restore it back to a state it was working.  This allowed me to "experiment" without fear of actually "breaking anything". Virtualization is a huge topic so in this post I just wanted to give a quick and dirty, up-and-running guide. First, I would check your BIOs and make sure you have any supported virtualization options "Enabled".  (VT-x, AMD V) Then go to  https://www.virtualbox.org/ and download VirtualBox. https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.4/VirtualBox-6.0.4-128413-Win.exe  (<-4daLazy) Run the installation.  "Next" it out.  (Your network ...