Linux Dummies 9th

Chapter 20: The Virtual World
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Figure 20-5:
The
VirtualBox
Settings
dialog box.
The Settings dialog box has eight setting categories, shown as icons with text
on the left side:
✓ General: Sets memory and BIOS-emulation features. From here you can
readjust the amount of memory the virtual server uses, along with setting
the amount of memory dedicated for video memory. The Advanced
tab allows you to configure BIOS-emulation settings, including the bootdevice
order, hard-drive controller emulation, and Clipboard sharing
with the host system.
If you have to install the virtual server’s operating system from a CD or
DVD-ROM, make sure that the CD/DVD-ROM drive is enabled and that
you place it above the hard drive in the boot-order list in the Advanced
settings.
✓ Hard Disks: Manages the hard-drive files used for the virtual server. You
can mount multiple hard-drive files to emulate more than one hard drive
on the system.
✓ CD/DVD-ROM: Manages the CD drive hardware or access to the CD/
DVD-ROM emulation file. Here’s where you can allow the virtual server
access to the CD/DVD-ROM drive on the host system. Another cool
feature of VirtualBox is that you can directly mount an ISO image file
already on the host system. This way you can install Linux distributions
directly from the ISO image without having to burn them onto a CD.
Figure 20-6 shows what this section looks like.