Windows 10 Hangs in VM

[SilicateWielder]

Hi,

 

so I have a class that I am taking where I need to use Autodesk REVIT, however I can't use it as I'm using linux for another course and Revit doesn't run under Wine. I'm currently attemping to run Windows 10 in a VM but the setup hangs when I start it up, is there a proper way to create a VirtualBox instance for Windows 10?

[Windows7ge]

Do you have the latest version of virtualbox? When creating the VM it should give you the options to choose what OS you want to install. Choose windows 10 x64 then follow the setup per usual. (2 cores, maybe 2GB of RAM, fixed or dynamic hard drive. I prefer fixed size.) outside of that with everything else on default settings it should work when installing the OS from a .ISO

[ProjectBox153]

If you need to use something like Revit, I wouldn't use a VM. I'd make a partition on my drive and install Windows locally. What are the specs of your machine?

[SilicateWielder]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

If you need to use something like Revit, I wouldn't use a VM. I'd make a partition on my drive and install Windows locally. What are the specs of your machine?

It's a laptop, Running on an AMD A8-7410 Quad-core and I've upgraded it to 8GB of RAM.low end machine

 

I also seem to have issues with my main rig trying to run windows 10 VMs, though for that system I use the VM for cross-compatibility testing. the specs for that system are as follows

A8-7600 OC'd to 3.8Ghz through BIOS

12GB DDR3 1600

2GB GTX 1050