VMWare Player

Although there are other virtual machines, I recommend VMware Player which is free and is compatible with Windows. There is also a paid version of VMware known as VMware Workstation which has extra features. But everything we need is available in VMware Player. The process is almost same in either version.

If they ask you to register to download the software, do it as its free. After you have downloaded the software double click it and install it . Click next, next, etc. and the installation will be complete.

Installation

Step 1: Open VMware Player

Step 2: Click on Create a New Virtual Machine

Step 3: In Installer disc image file, browse the ISO file you downloaded before and click Next.

Step 4: In the Guest Operating System select “Linux” and in version select Ubuntu 32-bit for 32-bit Architecture BackTrack and Ubuntu 64-bit for 64-bit Architecture BackTrack and click Next.

Step 5: Give a name to your Virtual Machine and you can leave the location as it is. Change it if you do not have enough disk space on that particular drive.

Step 6: Here make the disk size 20GB which is enough if you don`t save movies and other large files. In the option below it, select “Split virtual disk into multiple file” and again click Next.

Step 7: Inc the next window click “customize hardware” and specify 1 GB memory for it. If you do not have 1 gig then you can allocate 512Mb – it will be enough.

Step 8: Go to Network Adapter and select “Bridged: connected directly to the physical network” and check on Replicate physical network connection. Click close and then click Finish. You can now power on the Virtual Machine just created.