Having Fun with Computers serie : how to use Virtualization for safety and privacy with virtual box

Always wanted to try new software safely and fast? virtualization is the perfect solution. So here is a quick guide to manage that.

1. enter your bios, by pressing F2 or delete and go to advanced, cpu and activate virtualization.

2. load your os, download and install virtualbox from oracle and load your favorite p2p torrent software go to a linux website and download a desktop torrent iso (

3. Then launch virtualbox, click new chose a name, then linux ubuntu generally 64 or your favorite distro /debian64), next, add some ram (half of your system to have some speed) and then keep the disk size, next next next it's done.

4. power on by clicking, and then chose your iso as start-up disk next go

5. you are launched in your new system

6. update and install tor browser.

7. now that you have a clean ready to use virtualmachine ready time to clone it.

8. right click, clone it, new name done.

Now you have to play a fully clean OS to install what ever crap you want to try and after playing just power off and when finish just right click, and remove all files.

then a few quick things, you can easily augment the number of cpu cores to have more speed (half again is easy) and same for increasing the partition if your softwares are yuges, or encrypt your partition, anyway... what ever you want to do.