Click VirtualBox’s Add toolbar button, give the VM a name, and set Type to Linux, and Version to Other Linux, with the appropriate bit (32 or 64) parameter matching your distro.

If you want install Oracle Linux on Oracle VirtualBox, you can follow this guide to download the VM tool, ISO file, and create the VM.

Your real PC running VirtualBox is called the host; VirtualBox is technically the hypervisor; and any virtualized systems it runs on the host PC are called guests, and are your virtual machines (VM).

Like Windows, Linux also supports VirtualBox, though the limitations of the Type-2 hypervisor become apparent once you get into complex workloads. Performance-wise, it leaves a lot to be desired, ...

The VirtualBox makers have described the process for Windows and Linux users in a FAQ post, and I've described the virtual-Windows-inside-Linux process in more detail in our guide to running ...

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.

Read: How to install Oracle Linux on Oracle VirtualBox 3] Create a Virtual Machine After downloading the Arch Linux ISO file, the next step is to set up a Virtual Machine where we are going to run ...