Installing an OS in VirtualBox

[alan duval]

Thanks for your help. I was able to get the kernel version and then 
downloaded and installed VirtualBox. As a trial I then made a VM and ran 
Puppy Linux from a live CD. I then tried to install it but it wanted to 
use GParted to make a partition and I wasn't sure what this would do to 
my host OS. Hence I didn't go ahead. As most Linux distros also want to 
format partitions when installing, how does one proceed when this point 
is reached?

Alan Duval