Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual Creating a virtual machine

3 Starting out with VirtualBox

group of your “Applications” menu. Alternatively, you can type VirtualBox in a terminal.

A window like the following should come up:

On the left, you can see a pane that lists all the virtual machines you have created so far (quite a few in the example above). A row of buttons above it allows you to create new VMs and work on existing VMs. The pane on the right displays the properties of the virtual machine currently selected, if any.

When you start VirtualBox for the first time, as there is no virtual machine yet, everything will be empty.

3.2 Creating a virtual machine

Clicking on the “New” button in the user interface will guide you through setting up a new virtual machine (VM). A wizard will show up:

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