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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>
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| 13 | Double-click on the VM's entry in the machine list in
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| 14 | VirtualBox Manager.
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| 15 | </p>
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| 16 | </li>
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| 17 | <li>
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| 18 | <p>
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| 19 | Select the VM's entry in the machine list in VirtualBox Manager, and
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| 20 | click <b outputclass="bold">Start</b> in the toolbar
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| 21 | the top of the window.
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| 22 | </p>
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| 23 | </li>
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| 24 | <li>
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| 25 | <p>
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| 26 | Go to the <filepath>VirtualBox VMs</filepath> folder in your
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| 27 | system user's home directory. Find the subdirectory of the
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| 28 | machine you want to start and double-click on the machine
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| 29 | settings file. This file has a <filepath>.vbox</filepath> file
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| 30 | extension.
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| 31 | </p>
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| 32 | </li>
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| 33 | </ul>
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| 34 | <p>
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| 35 | Starting a virtual machine displays a new window, and the virtual
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| 36 | machine which you selected will boot up. Everything which would
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| 37 | normally be seen on the virtual system's monitor is shown in the
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| 38 | window. See <xref href="Introduction.dita#Introduction/fig-win2016-intro"/>.
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| 39 | </p>
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| 40 | <p>
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| 41 | In general, you can use the virtual machine as you would use a
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| 42 | real computer. The following topics describe a few points to note
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| 43 | when running a VM.
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| 44 | </p>
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| 45 | </body>
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| 46 | </topic>
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