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I don't know VirtualBox that well, the instructions in the post are unclear to me and don't work. Could someone elaborate this for VB-dummies like me?

Edit: Especially unclear is “Use an existing virtual hard drive file, the one you downloaded”. How do I do that?

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The .vmdk file you get after running gunzip on the downloaded file is a virtual hard drive. When you create a new VM in VirtualBox, it asks if you want to create a new virtual hard drive or use an existing one. Select the one downloaded.

Yep, got it. I didn't recognize that funny graphic beside the pop-up menu in VirtualBox was supposed to be a button for opening a file. Creative UI choices like that do confuse me a great deal.

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