[Preparing the build](getting_started/preparing_the_build.html) has information about setting up your system to compile Redox, which is necessary if you want to contribute to Redox development.
If you aren't (currently) interesting in going through the trouble of building Redox, you can download the latest release. See the instructions for [running in a virtual machine](getting_started/try_vm.html) or [running on real hardware](getting_started/real_hardware.html).
The ISO image is *not* the prefered way to run Redox in a virtual machine. Currently the ISO image loads the entire hard disk image (including unused space) into memory. In the future, the live disk should be improved so that doesn't happen.
Instead, you want to use the hard disk image, which you can find on the [release pages](https://github.com/redox-os/redox/releases) as a `.bin.gz` file. Download and extract that file.
You can then run it in your prefered emulator; this command will run qemu with various features Redox can use enables: