VirtualBox

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1<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
2<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
3<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="intro-running">
4 <title>Running Your Virtual Machine</title>
5
6 <body>
7 <p>
8 To start a virtual machine, you have the following options:
9 </p>
10 <ul>
11 <li>
12 <p>
13 Double-click on the VM's entry in the machine list in
14 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>.
15 </p>
16 </li>
17 <li>
18 <p>
19 Select the VM's entry in the machine list in <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>, and
20 click <b outputclass="bold">Start</b> in the toolbar
21 the top of the window.
22 </p>
23 </li>
24 <li>
25 <p>
26 Go to the <filepath>VirtualBox VMs</filepath> folder in your
27 system user's home directory. Find the subdirectory of the
28 machine you want to start and double-click on the machine
29 settings file. This file has a <filepath>.vbox</filepath> file
30 extension.
31 </p>
32 </li>
33 </ul>
34 <p>
35 Starting a virtual machine displays a new window, and the virtual
36 machine which you selected will boot up. Everything which would
37 normally be seen on the virtual system's monitor is shown in the
38 window. See <xref href="Introduction.dita#Introduction/fig-win2016-intro"/>.
39 </p>
40 <p>
41 In general, you can use the virtual machine as you would use a
42 real computer. The following topics describe a few points to note
43 when running a VM.
44 </p>
45 </body>
46</topic>
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