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Here we are going to install Windows Server 2022 LTSC preview version on VirtualBox virtual machine to try its latest features…

As per the virtual Ignite 2021 conference announcement done by Microsoft, they are planning to release the final version of Windows server 2022, later this year. Whereas the Trial versions of Windows Server 2022 preview are already available for Windows Insiders.

The upcoming Windows Server’s Long Term Servicing Channel Release (LTSC) will receive security updates for ten years. The current version is Windows Server 2019 LTSC. The innovations of Windows Server 2022 include multi-layer protection against threats, which can be activated via Secured Core Server. Besides, the new version enables HTTPS via TLS 1.3 ex works to support secure connections for business-critical data.

Furthermore, the updated version of Windows Admin Center and the possibility to manage Windows Server in your own data center with Azure Arc.  As per the official blog, now it becomes easier to manage virtual machines. Besides, the Storage Migration Service receives a new scenario for migrating file servers from its own data center to Azure. For more information, the user can refer to the official announcement.

Windows Server 2022 installation on VirtualBox Virtual machine

1. Download Windows Server 2022 ISO

To get the preview ISO file of the Server 2022, the user can visit the official Windows Insider page of Microsoft. Or else see our step by step article on this – How to get Server 2022 ISO or VHDX image

2. Install VirtualBox

Although if you are here for this tutorial then you would already have VirtualBox installed on your system, if not, then download it from virtualbox.org. It is available for all popular platforms. Where for Linux see our tutorials such as Redhat and Ubuntu

3. Create a Virtual machine for Windows Server 2022

Run the installed VirtualBox and follow the below steps to create Microsoft Server 2022 virtual machine.

1. Click on the New button.
2. Give some name to your VM, here we are installing the server version, thus, we name it the same i.e Windows Server 2022.
3. Select Microsoft Windows as OS type and Windows 10 64-bit as version.
4. If you want to use the Desktop GUI version then at least 2GB RAM should be assigned, however, we recommend 4GB or more depending upon what are you planning to install for better performance.
5. Create a Virtual Hard disk. When it asks for file type go for VHD so that later you can use the same virtual disk image in Hyper-V as well.
6. Select Dynamic Allocated, this will not allocate all the assigned VHD space at once, instead steadily as our virtual disk starts growing.
7. In the next steps, use the slider bar and allocate the amount of space for the VHD file. Here we are stipulating 50 GB but you can more if you are planning to deploy some enterprise features/applications.
8. Finally, finish and you will have your Server 2022 Virtual machine on VirtualBox.

4. Start Virtual Machine

Now, select the created VM from the left panel of VirtualBox and click on the Start button given in the Menu… after that the Vbox will ask you to select the startup disk. Here we have to choose the ISO file we have downloaded for Windows Server 2022 at the first step of this article.

⇒ Select the folder icon to open the File Explorer window of your respective OS.

⇒ Click on the Add button to select the downloaded Microsoft Server 2022 ISO image as bootable or Startup disk medium.

⇒ When the ISO image appears in the disk display area select it and then click on the Choose button.

⇒ Finally, hit the Start button to move forward for the installation of Microsoft Server 2022 on Virtualbox VM.

5.  Install Microsoft Server 2022

Select “I don’t have license key” when the installation setup asks for it.  Moving forward, you will see multiple setups to install, that are:

• Windows Server 2022 Standard
• Windows Server 2022 Standard (Desktop Experience)
• Windows Serbger 2022 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2022 Datacenter (Desktop Experience)

If you have some application that requires Graphical User Interface or you want to experience the Server with GUI, then select the Desktop Experience one. Whereas those who want to manage their server (without GUI) installation using Windows Admin Center can go for the Standard or DataCenter option.

As here we are not upgrading any previous Windows server installation, thus select the Custom Install.

Select the available hard drive, we have created on VirtualBox. If you want to create partitions then select the NEW option otherwise click on the NEXT to let the Server use the whole drive to install the OS.

6. Set Admin Password

Once the installation is complete, the setup will ask you to type a password to secure a built-in Administrator account.

Later press – Ctrl+Alt+Del to login.

1. First go to Windows Server 2012R2 evaluation downloading website “https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2“
   Choose ISO file type
   Download ISO image of Windows Server 2012R2 evaluation

2. Start Oracle Virtual Manager, Select NEW.

Name: Windows Server 2012R2

Type: Microsoft Windows

Version: Windows 2012(64-bit)

3. Give 5120M memory size depending on availability.

4. Create an virtual hard disk.

5. Choose “VDI( VirtualBox Disk Image)“.

6. Choose “Dynamically allocated“.

7. Give size 30GB.

8. Also you can choose where the VDI image file located.

9. Click “create” to create “Windows Server 2012R2” virtual machine.

10. Now attach the ISO image to the virtual CD/DVD drive by :

a)Ensure the Windows Server 2012R2 VM is selected and click Settings.
b)Select Storage. Click on Empty under IDE Controller.
c)In the Attributes section, click on “+”sign for adding optimal disk.
d)Select “Choose a disk file”.
e)Browse to the location where you saved the Windows DVD ISO file and select it.
f)Click Open.
g)It should look similar to the following graphic.

11)  Now we can install Windows 2012R2 .

a)Select the Windows Server 2012R2 VM in VirtualBox and click Start.
When the Install screen appears, click Next.

b)Click Install Now.

c)Select 2012 evalution Datacenter (Server with a GUI) and click Next. The Server Core installation includes a command prompt but not a graphical user interface (GUI).

d)Review the license terms, select the checkbox to accept the license terms, and click Next.

e) Select Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).

f) The 30 GB drive you created with the VM will be selected as Drive 0 Unallocated Space. Click Next.

g)The installation will begin .

h)When prompted, enter a password for the Administrator account in the Password and Retype password text boxes.  Click Finish.

To log on Windows Server 2012R2, press the host key plus the Delete key to simulate the CTRL + ALT + DELETE key combination. The host key is the right-CTRL key by default.

In this note; I will show you how you can install Windows server 2016 on Oracle VM Virtual Box step by step. Actually all my notes about database security. But I will use this server to show you some security feature of SQL Server.

1. First; you have create a blank Windows machine by Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager by clicking New in Machine menu.

2.In the dialog box give a name for the virtual machine and choose Windows 2016 (64bit) as a version.

3. Now ; select the machine RAM , I chose 2 GB as you see in the picture below.

4. After pressing Next; you will come to Hard Disk configuration page;  in my machine I decided to create a virtual disk.

5. Choose VDI as a hard disk type.

6. In the Storage on physical hard disk page choose your disk type and I chose dynamically allocated disk

7. In File location and size page;  choose you hard disk size and location and press the Create button to create a blank machine. Now you blank Windows 2016 server is ready.

8. Now It is the time to download Windows 2016 Server ISO from Microsoft support page.

9. After downloading ISO page ; insert this file into previously created blank machine. You can do this from the setting page of the machine , choose storage section and Optical Drive part.

10. Now start the machine and press Install Now.

11. Choose Windows Server 2016 Standart Evaluation ( Desktop Experience)

12. This is a new installation for this reason ; choose Custom install

13. Now create you disk drive ; just choose Drive 0 and press Next.

14.  Windows installation starts and you have to wait for a while

15.  At the and you should enter your Administration password and you have make some regional setting.

16. And now you virtual Windows 2016 server is ready you can open your desktop by pressing   Ctrl-Alt-Del from Input – keyboard menu .

I hope this note will be helpful for you.

Y. Anil Akduygu from Istanbul

Windows 2022 is an upcoming server OS from Microsoft with new features and plenty of security enhancements. As Microsoft is pushing harder on security by utilizing hardware chips in Windows 11, the same technique continues in Windows 2022 servers also.

The next question that comes to our mind is installing and testing this new OS on our normal PCs. Thanks to virtualization technology. We can do that with the Windows built-in Hyper-V feature or VMware and VirtualBox. In this guide, let me show you where to download the Windows 2022 server ISO/VHDX file and install it on VirtualBox using your normal Windows 10 or 11 computer.

Some key security improvements include secure-Core servers, TPM 2.0, Virtualization-based security, and firmware protection. Also, Microsoft implements HTTPS, and TLS 1.3 enabled connectivity by default. Improvements in DNS resolution also can be seen in this new OS which can prevent DNS hacks and poisoning.

Other considerable enhancements in monitoring Azure, on-premise and hybrid environments, networking, and Hyper-V improvements are available in the new server OS. To find out more new features, do check the official feature list.

Also, note that when we install Windows 2022 on VirtualBox (or any virtualization environment), we can’t check the all-new features. Some of these features will only work when we install the server OS on the physical hardware.

1) Download the Windows 2022 server from the official site here. You may need to provide your details to download the file.

2) Download and install the latest Oracle VirtualBox software (if you don’t have it already on your host computer).

3) Make sure you have enough hardware resources to allocate. Minimum 2GB RAM, recommended is more than 4GB.

4) Create a new VM from the VirtualBox console. It is okay to select the Windows 2019 (64bit) server as the OS version since Server 2022 is not officially supported by VirtualBox (as of now)

5) Set the RAM size based on your physical computer RAM availability. I configured 8GB in this example.

6) Create a new virtual hard disk, VDI type, 50GB size (or more) and select a dynamically allocated type to save disk space.

7) Click next to create the virtual machine.

Go to the settings of the newly created virtual machine and edit the processor settings. Increase the processor cores to 2 or more. By default, it will create the VM with a single-core, which may not be enough to install the desktop experience version of the Windows 2022 server.

You can check the hardware requirements for the Windows 2022 server here at the official site.

9) Open the Storage option and mount the downloaded 2022 ISO file to CD/DVD drive as shown below.

10) Power the virtual machine and select the mounted ISO file to boot the VM.

11) It is a normal Windows OS server installation process; nothing changed in this version. Select the Desktop Experience if you want to get the normal desktop and GUI interface. If you don’t select this option, you will get the Windows 2022 Server Core on the VirtualBox.

If you want to get experience on server core, you can install without Desktop Experience. You can always upgrade the server core to a Desktop experience or vice versa later.

In this example, I selected the desktop version.

12) Select the new Install option to do the fresh installation.

13) Select the hard disk you want to install and click Next. The installation process will create the required partitions and process to the next step.

14) After the installation is completed and VM is rebooted, you need to set up the Administrator password.

15) Here you go; you will land on the latest Windows 2022 server OS on VirtualBox as a virtual machine. It doesn’t matter which OS you have on your computer; it can be Windows 10, 11 or even the seven, Linux or macOS. As long as you have enough hardware resources on your physical computer with the latest VirtualBox, you can have Windows 2022 server as VM showed in these steps.

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What about VirtualBox Guest Additions for Windows 2022 Server?

As we mentioned earlier, Oracle VirtualBox doesn’t support Windows 2022 since this server version is still in preview mode (as of mid-July 2021). So, we do not have proper tested VirtualBox guest additions for server 2022.

But, we can try the available guest additions for Windows OS (Server 2019). Before proceeding to the next steps, I highly recommend taking a snapshot of the virtual machine.

16) Click on Devices, and Insert Guest additions CD image of the virtual machine.

17) Once it is mounted successfully inside the VM, open the CD drive and execute the Windows version of guest additions.

18) Select Install for required drivers and continue the installation. You need to reboot the VM at the end.

19) This Windows 2022 server VM should perform well with proper working display, mouse movements, full-screen mode, and other additional VirtualBox guess addition features.

20) Take another snapshot before playing around with the new OS. Also, a full Windows update is highly recommended to get the latest updates and improvements.

Download Windows 2022 Server VHDX for VirtualBox or Hyper-V

Usually, Microsoft provides the preview and final versions of server Operating Systems in VHDX format, which natively supports Hyper-V. These pre-installed VHDX files can be easily imported to Hyper-V or VirtualBox to use the OS instantly.

You can download the Windows 2022 Server VHDX file from the Microsoft site here.

Unfortunately, at the moment, the preview builds are temporary on hold, and you can’t download them from the Microsoft site. When these images are available, you can download the VHDX file and simply import it to Oracle VirtualBox as described in our earlier guide on Windows 2012 R2 Server.