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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="Introduction">
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| 4 | <title>First Steps</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>Welcome to <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>.</p>
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| 8 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> is a cross-platform virtualization application. That means
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| 9 | it extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it can run multiple operating systems, inside
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| 10 | multiple virtual machines (VMs), at the same time. As an example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, run
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| 11 | Windows Server on your Linux server, run Linux on your Windows PC, and so on, all alongside your existing
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| 12 | applications. You can install and run as many virtual machines as you like. The only practical limits are disk
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| 13 | space and memory.</p>
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| 14 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> is deceptively simple yet also very powerful. It can run
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| 15 | everywhere from small embedded systems or desktop class machines all the way up to data center deployments and
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| 16 | even Cloud environments. </p>
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| 17 | <p>In this User Guide, we will begin simply with a quick introduction to virtualization and how to get your first
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| 18 | virtual machine running with the easy-to-use <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> graphical user
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| 19 | interface. Subsequent chapters will go into much more detail covering more powerful tools and features, but
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| 20 | fortunately, it is not necessary to read the entire User Guide before you can use <ph
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| 21 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. </p>
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| 22 | <p>You can find a summary of <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>'s capabilities in <xref
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| 23 | href="features-overview.dita#features-overview"/>. For existing <ph
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| 24 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> users who just want to find out what is new in this release,
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| 25 | see the <xref href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/7.0/relnotes/relnotes-ChangeLog.html"
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| 26 | format="html" scope="external">Change Log</xref>. </p>
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| 27 | </body>
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| 28 | </topic>
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