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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="intro-running">
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| 4 | <title>Running Your Virtual Machine</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | To start a virtual machine, you have the following options:
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| 9 | </p>
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| 10 | <ul>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p> Double-click the VM's name in the machine list in <ph
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| 13 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>. </p>
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| 14 | </li>
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| 15 | <li>
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| 16 | <p>
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| 17 | Select the VM's entry in the machine list in <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>, and
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| 18 | click <b outputclass="bold">Start</b> in the toolbar
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| 19 | the top of the window.
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| 20 | </p>
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| 21 | </li>
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| 22 | <li>
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| 23 | <p> Go to the <filepath>VirtualBox VMs</filepath> folder in your system user's home
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| 24 | directory. Find the subdirectory of the machine you want to start and double-click the
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| 25 | machine settings file. This file has a <filepath>.vbox</filepath> file extension. </p>
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| 26 | </li>
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| 27 | </ul>
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| 28 | <p>
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| 29 | Starting a virtual machine displays a new window, and the virtual
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| 30 | machine which you selected will boot up. Everything which would
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| 31 | normally be seen on the virtual system's monitor is shown in the
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| 32 | window. See <xref href="Introduction.dita#Introduction/fig-win2016-intro"/>.
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| 33 | </p>
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| 34 | <p>
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| 35 | In general, you can use the virtual machine as you would use a
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| 36 | real computer. The following topics describe a few points to note
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| 37 | when running a VM.
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| 38 | </p>
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| 39 | </body>
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| 40 | </topic>
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