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NOTE: This tutorial assumes that you have already downloaded and installed VirtualBox for your platform.

The next sections will walk you through these steps in detail. Launch a Bitnami WordPress virtual machine with VirtualBox.Here are the steps you’ll follow in this tutorial: But WordPress is just an example: there are hundreds of other Bitnami virtual appliances to choose from, and they’re all equally easy to set up. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through setting up a Bitnami WordPress virtual machine, which gives you a pre-configured WordPress blog that you can start using right away. It’s not hard to see why: WordPress is incredibly easy to use, comes with thousands of extensions and themes, and is completely free and open source. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world, in use on over 60 million websites (according to Wikipedia). In this guide, I’ll walk you, step by step, through the process of using a Bitnami virtual appliance with VirtualBox to quickly get started using a new server application. There are no additional libraries, databases, and runtimes to deal with, and the virtual machine is completely isolated from software installed on your machine. Using a virtualization platform like VirtualBox, you can simply start the Bitnami virtual machine image whenever you want to use the application. There is, however, an alternative and simple approach: a Bitnami virtual machine. There are files to download and copy, configuration settings to be adjusted, and various other hoops to jump through before you can actually get some productive work in. If you’ve ever tried installing a server application (like WordPress) or a development environment (like an Apache/PHP/MySQL environment), you already know that it’s a lot harder than it seems at first glance. Get Started with Bitnami Applications using VirtualBox
