| 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="settings-basic">
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| 4 | <title>Basic Tab</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>In the <b outputclass="bold">Basic</b> tab of the <b outputclass="bold">General</b> settings category, you can
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| 8 | find these settings: </p>
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| 9 | <ul>
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| 10 | <li>
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| 11 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Name:</b> The name of the the
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| 12 | VM, as shown in the list of VMs in the main VirtualBox
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| 13 | Manager window. Using this name, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> also saves
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| 14 | the VM's configuration files. If you change the name,
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| 15 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> renames these files as well. As a result, you
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| 16 | can only use characters which are allowed for file names on your host OS.
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| 17 | </p>
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| 18 | <p>Note that internally, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> uses unique identifiers (UUIDs)
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| 19 | to identify virtual machines. You can display these using the <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> commands. </p>
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| 20 | </li>
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| 21 | <li>
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| 22 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Type and Subtype:</b> The type and subtype of the guest
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| 23 | OS for the VM. For example, if the <b>Type</b> is Linux, the <b>Subtype</b> might be
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| 24 | Oracle Linux.</p>
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| 25 | <p>These are the same settings that are specified in
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| 26 | the <b outputclass="bold">New Virtual Machine</b>
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| 27 | wizard. See <xref href="create-vm-wizard.dita#create-vm-wizard"/>.
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| 28 | </p>
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| 29 | <p>Whereas the default settings of a newly created VM depend on the selected OS type, changing the type later
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| 30 | has no effect on VM settings. This value is purely informational and decorative. </p>
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| 31 | </li>
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| 32 | <li>
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| 33 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Version:</b> The version of the
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| 34 | guest OS for the VM. This is the same setting that is
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| 35 | specified in the <b outputclass="bold">New Virtual
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| 36 | Machine</b> wizard. See
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| 37 | <xref href="create-vm-wizard.dita#create-vm-wizard"/>.
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| 38 | </p>
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| 39 | </li>
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| 40 | </ul>
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| 41 | </body>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | </topic>
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