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 a 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> Double-click the VM's name in the machine list in <ph
13 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>. </p>
14 </li>
15 <li>
16 <p> Select the VM's name in the machine list in <ph
17 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>, and click <b outputclass="bold">Start</b>
18 in the toolbar the top of the window. </p>
19 </li>
20 <li>
21 <p> Go to the <filepath>VirtualBox VMs</filepath> folder in your system user's home
22 directory. Find the subdirectory of the machine you want to start and double-click the
23 machine settings file. This file has a <filepath>.vbox</filepath> file extension. </p>
24 </li>
25 </ul>
26 <p>Starting a virtual machine displays a new window, and the virtual machine which you selected will boot up.
27 Everything which would normally be seen on the virtual system's monitor is shown in the window. See <xref
28 href="Introduction.dita#Introduction/fig-win2016-intro"/>. </p>
29 <p>In general, you can use the virtual machine as you would use a real computer. The following topics describe a few
30 points to note when running a VM. </p>
31 </body>
32</topic>
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