Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual Running a virtual machine

3 Starting out with VirtualBox

•If you have downloaded installation media from the Internet in the form of an ISO image file (most probably in the case of a Linux distribution), you would normally burn this file to an empty CD or DVD and proceed as just described. With VirtualBox however, you can skip this step and mount the ISO file directly. VirtualBox will then present this file as a CD or DVD-ROM drive to the virtual machine, much like it does with virtual hard disk images.

In this case, in the settings dialog, go to the “CD/DVD-ROM” section and select “ISO image file”. This brings up the Virtual Disk Image Manager, where you perform the following steps:

1.Press the “Add” button to add your ISO file to the list of registered images. This will present an ordinary file dialog that allows you to find your ISO file on your host machine.

2.Back to the manager window, select the ISO file that you just added and press the “Select” button. This selects the ISO file for your VM.

The Virtual Disk Image Manager is described in detail in chapter 3.5, The Virtual Disk Manager, page 43.

3.4 Running a virtual machine

The “Start” button in the main window starts the virtual machine that is currently selected.

This opens up a new window, and the virtual machine which you selected will boot up. Everything which would normally be seen on the virtual system’s monitor is shown

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