{"id":1421,"date":"2007-06-07T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/test-a-new-os-in-this-virtual-machine\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:54:11","slug":"test-a-new-os-in-this-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/test-a-new-os-in-this-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Test a new OS in this virtual machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"virtual-box-th.jpg\" id=\"image1420\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/06\/virtual-box-th.jpg\" \/>If you ever felt like testing a new operating system but didn&#8217;t have the guts to format your PC and start from scratch, then this is for you. VirtualBox creates a virtual computer inside your PC so that you can install and test just about anything, from a whole new OS to any application, without any risk. A great tool for all those eager users who always want to try new stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever felt like testing a new operating system but didn&#8217;t have the guts to format your PC and start from scratch, then this is for you. VirtualBox creates a virtual computer inside your PC so that you can install and test just about anything, from a whole new OS to any application, without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/test-a-new-os-in-this-virtual-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Test a new OS in this virtual machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337597,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/337597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}