When creating a new hard disk VirtualBox provides three choices on the file type that is to be used for storing the data within. Later in the wizard there’s also opportunity to change the size anyway. Alternatively you may select Do not add a virtual hard disk and create a hard disk to the desired size after the VM had been created. Again as we’ve chosen Windows 3.1, VirtualBox has suggested the recommended size of the hard disk to be 1 GB. As we don’t have one yet, we will select the Create a virtual hard disk now option and choose Create. Now the option is regarding a hard disk for the VM. DOS and Windows 3.1 will happily run on the lowest option of 4 MB, though anything above 32 MB is considered overkill. By default as Windows 3.1 had been selected, the recommended memory size is 32 MB. The following option now is to choose the amount of RAM. Setting up a new Windows 3.1 virtual machine. You may either select the Windows version as shown below, or type Windows 3.1 and the drop-down selection will automatically change. A Create Virtual Machine dialog box will appear allowing you to select which operating system it will be using for this virtual machine (VM).
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