Running Multiple ISO's

---

Morning All,
Been watching these great Edutainers giving us wonderful lessons and seen them switching back and forth between operating systems. I've been a Windows user since '95 (and have even dabbled in 3.0) but have little to no experience with Mac or Linux. So while going through some of the courses you offer it occurred to me I should probably familiarize myself with these OS's.

I'm currently use Windows 10 home and was able to download Oracle VM Virtualbox. I successfully installed and can run Ubuntu on Virtualbox however, to my knowledge, it is unable to run multiple ISO's at the same time (unless there's a setting I don't know about). Any help, tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

@James-Dunton

You would have to create another VM within VirtualBox to do so. The limitation that you is on your system resources. Do you have enough RAM and disk space do run them on your machine.

But it is possible to run multiple VMs (e.g. Linux Distro and macOS) along with your Host machine if you have enough hardware resources available.

Thanks Ronnie,
Yes I was able to research Oracle's website further and found documentation. I am now running both Linux and Mac OS's on my VM machine. Unfortunately, due to RAM limitations (for right now lol) I'm only able to run one ISO at a time.

I run 8 VMs on a HP DL360e Gen8 refurbished server with VMWare 6 Standalone (free). It has SAS RAID 1 on two datastores of 1 TB each. Planning next month to put in 4 x 3TB SAS drives for 6 TB RAID 10 array. It has 96 GB of RAM.

These run Ubuntu 20.04.1 server / desktop
Two DNS / DHCP servers
File server
Syslog server
Two Word Press servers
Mysql server running MS SQL Express
Programming desktop for Python and other languages

I bought the VMWare Essential kit with 6 CPU licenses to backup the VMware with VEEAM community (free).

I gave each one 2-4 GB of RAM. You need a swap parition equal to ram. The two Wordpress servers are over 300 GB of disk space. HP DL 360e Gen8 has a SD card for VMWare to boot. The SAS drives are for the datastores. I have the ISO files in the datastore for Ubuntu 20.04.1 VEEAM community can backup 10 computers and servers with agents. The VMs are backed up and can be directly restored to VMWare eSXi. You would need to create VMs and point the CD to the ISO image in the datastore to install it. I assign all the resources for each VM.