How to Create and Setup a Virtual Machine.

 In this post, we provide a nearly step by step guide on how to use virtual box to create a virtual machine, install some extra features to make it easier to work with, install two different distributions of linux, and show how to network those two machines together!

Here is a video walkthrough as well:

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