Beginning the Installation of the Guest Session

After you are ready to begin the installation of the guest operating system, launch the guest operating system Installation Wizard as follows:

1. From the actions pane, choose New, Virtual Machine. The New Virtual Machine Wizard will launch.

2. Click Next to continue past the initial Before You Begin screen.

3. Give your virtual machine a name that will be descriptive of the virtual guest session you are creating, such as AD Global Catalog Server, or Exchange 2010 Client Access Server 1, or SharePoint Frontend.

4. If you had set the default virtual machine folder location where guest images are stored, the new image for this virtual machine will be placed in a subfolder of that default folder. However, ...

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