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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="BasicConcepts">
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| 4 | <title>Configuring Virtual Machines</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | This chapter provides detailed steps for configuring an
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| 9 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> virtual machine (VM). For an introduction to
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| 10 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> and steps to get your first virtual machine running,
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| 11 | see <xref href="Introduction.dita#Introduction"/>.
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| 12 | </p>
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| 13 | <p>
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| 14 | You have considerable latitude when deciding what virtual hardware
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| 15 | to provide to the guest. Use virtual hardware to communicate with
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| 16 | the host system or with other guests. For example, you can use
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| 17 | virtual hardware in the following ways:
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | <ul>
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| 20 | <li>
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| 21 | <p>
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| 22 | Have <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> present an ISO CD-ROM image to a guest
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| 23 | system as if it were a physical CD-ROM.
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| 24 | </p>
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| 25 | </li>
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| 26 | <li>
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| 27 | <p>
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| 28 | Provide a guest system access to the physical network through
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| 29 | its virtual network card.
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| 30 | </p>
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| 31 | </li>
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| 32 | <li>
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| 33 | <p>
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| 34 | Provide the host system, other guests, and computers on the
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| 35 | Internet access to the guest system.
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| 36 | </p>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | </ul>
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| 39 | </body>
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| 40 | </topic>
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