| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="intro-starting">
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| 4 | <title>Starting <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/></title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | After installation, you can start <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> as follows:
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| 9 | </p>
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| 10 | <ul>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Windows hosts.</b> In the
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| 13 | <b outputclass="bold">Programs</b> menu, click on the
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| 14 | item in the <b outputclass="bold">VirtualBox</b> group.
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| 15 | On some Windows platforms, you can also enter
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| 16 | <userinput>VirtualBox</userinput> in the search box of the
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| 17 | <b outputclass="bold">Start</b> menu.
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | </li>
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| 20 | <li>
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| 21 | <p><b outputclass="bold">macOS hosts.</b> In the Finder,
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| 22 | double-click on the
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| 23 | <b outputclass="bold">VirtualBox</b> item in the
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| 24 | Applications folder. You may want to drag this item onto your
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| 25 | Dock.
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| 26 | </p>
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| 27 | </li>
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| 28 | <li>
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| 29 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Linux or Oracle Solaris
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| 30 | hosts</b>. Depending on your desktop environment, an
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| 31 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> item may have been placed in either the System
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| 32 | or System Tools group of your
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| 33 | <b outputclass="bold">Applications</b> menu.
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| 34 | Alternatively, you can enter <userinput>VirtualBox</userinput> in
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| 35 | a terminal window.
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| 36 | </p>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | </ul>
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| 39 | <p>
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| 40 | When you start <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> interface is shown.
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| 41 | See <xref href="gui-virtualboxmanager.dita#gui-virtualboxmanager"/>.
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| 42 | </p>
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| 43 | </body>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </topic>
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