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Part IV: Junior Administrator Boot Camp
The Devices menu
The Devices menu allows you to control the status of the hardware devices
being used in the virtual server. The options available in this section depend
on which hardware devices you selected when you created the virtual server’s
sandbox. The available options are
✓ Mount CD/DVD-ROM: Allows you to connect the virtual server to the
host system’s CD or DVD-ROM drive or to an ISO image of a CD or DVD-
ROM stored on the host system. This second feature is great for easily
installing a Linux distribution from an ISO image without having to burn
it onto a CD.
✓ Unmount CD/DVD-ROM: Releases the CD/DVD-ROM device or ISO image
file from the virtual server.
✓ Mount Floppy: Allows access to the workstation’s floppy drive (if
installed) or to a file image of a floppy disk. Similar to the CD/DVD-ROM
version, you can use a file on your host system to emulate a floppy disk.
✓ Unmount Floppy: Releases the floppy device or floppy image file from
the virtual server.
✓ Network Adapters: Provides access to the emulated network adapters
on the virtual server. You can either enable or disable the network
adapter from this interface.
A check mark next to an adapter means it’s enabled.
✓ USB Devices: If you allow the virtual server to access your USB devices
while you’re setting up the virtual server, this option appears. When
you plug a USB device into the host system, VirtualBox detects the new
device automatically and passes it on to the guest operating system. To
remove your USB device, disable the entry in this menu.
✓ Shared Folders: If you selected to create shared folders for the virtual
server during the setup, use this area to enable and disable access to
the shared folder.
✓ Install Guest Additions: You can download the VirtualBox Guest
Additions CD from this menu entry. The Guest Additions CD contains
specialized drivers you can install on guest operating systems to allow
customized video and mouse interaction (see the section “The Machine
menu” earlier in this chapter).
The Devices menu gives you full control over which hardware the guest operating
system can access.