

The dialog expects to meet the password criteria without showing the criteria, this is weird! Seems like it requires alphabets, numbers, and special characters. It will take a few minutes for the install to complete. Wait for a few minutes for the installation to complete: Click on Next to start the installation:.Take the default for the allocated space:.Select Custom Install as we are installing as a VM:.Select the Desktop Experience version otherwise the standard Windows desktop will not be available after Windows is booted:.So if you chose the default 20GB HDD, then no Docker containers can run on it. The base windowsservercore image is 3.8GB.

Set up a dynamically allocated HDD, make sure to choose 30GB.Create a new virtual machine (VM) using Virtual Box:.

It’s a ~5GB download so try on a reliable and fast Internet connection. Download the Windows 2016 Server Evaluation version.This is an update to Windows Server 2016 using VirtualBox for Docker Containers. The first part will show how to install Windows Server 2016 on VirtualBox VM. This blog is the first part of a multi-part series. I recommend you download the Windows 2016 Server Evaluation version. Windows Server 2016 was announced a few weeks ago.
