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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="cloud-vm">
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| 4 | <title>Using Cloud 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 | A cloud virtual machine (<i>cloud VM</i>) is a
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| 9 | type of VM that represents an instance on a cloud service. Cloud
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| 10 | VMs are shown in the machine list in VirtualBox Manager, in the same way
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| 11 | as local VMs are.
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| 12 | </p>
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| 13 | <p>
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| 14 | By using cloud VMs you can create, manage, and control your
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| 15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances from VirtualBox Manager.
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| 16 | </p>
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| 17 | <note>
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| 18 | <p>
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| 19 | Cloud VMs do not install, export, or import instances to the
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| 20 | Oracle VM VirtualBox host. All operations are done remotely on the
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| 21 | cloud service.
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| 22 | </p>
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| 23 | </note>
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| 24 | <fig id="fig-cloud-vm-overview">
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| 25 | <title>Cloud VMs, Shown in VirtualBox Manager</title>
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| 26 | <image href="images/cloudvm-overview.png" width="12cm" placement="break"/>
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| 27 | </fig>
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| 28 | <p>
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| 29 | Cloud VMs can be used to do the following tasks in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:
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| 30 | </p>
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| 31 | <ul>
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| 32 | <li>
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| 33 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Create a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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| 34 | instance.</b> See <xref href="cloud-vm-new.dita#cloud-vm-new"/>.
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| 35 | </p>
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| 36 | </li>
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| 37 | <li>
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| 38 | <p><b outputclass="bold"> Use an existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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| 39 | instance.</b> See <xref href="cloud-vm-add.dita#cloud-vm-add"/>.
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| 40 | </p>
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| 41 | </li>
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| 42 | <li>
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| 43 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Configure an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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| 44 | instance.</b> You can change settings for the
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| 45 | instance, such as display name and shape. See
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| 46 | <xref href="cloud-vm-settings.dita#cloud-vm-settings"/>.
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| 47 | </p>
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| 48 | </li>
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| 49 | <li>
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| 50 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Control an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance.</b>
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| 51 | Stop, start, and terminate the instance. See
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| 52 | <xref href="cloud-vm-control.dita#cloud-vm-control"/>
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| 53 | </p>
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| 54 | </li>
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| 55 | <li>
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| 56 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Create a console connection to an
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| 57 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance</b>. See
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| 58 | <xref href="cloud-vm-instance-console.dita#cloud-vm-instance-console"/>.
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| 59 | </p>
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| 60 | </li>
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| 61 | </ul>
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| 62 | </body>
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| 63 | </topic>
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