| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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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="settings-basic">
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| 4 | <title>Basic Tab</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | In the <b outputclass="bold">Basic</b> tab of the
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| 9 | <b outputclass="bold">General</b> settings category, you
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| 10 | can find these settings:
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| 11 | </p>
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| 12 | <ul>
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| 13 | <li>
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| 14 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Name:</b> The name of the the
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| 15 | VM, as shown in the list of VMs in the main VirtualBox
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| 16 | Manager window. Using this name, Oracle VM VirtualBox also saves
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| 17 | the VM's configuration files. If you change the name,
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| 18 | Oracle VM VirtualBox renames these files as well. As a result, you
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| 19 | can only use characters which are allowed for file names on
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| 20 | your host OS.
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| 21 | </p>
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| 22 | <p>
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| 23 | Note that internally, Oracle VM VirtualBox uses unique identifiers
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| 24 | (UUIDs) to identify virtual machines. You can display these
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| 25 | using the <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> commands.
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| 26 | </p>
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| 27 | </li>
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| 28 | <li>
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| 29 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Type:</b> The type of the guest
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| 30 | OS for the VM. This is the same setting that is specified in
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| 31 | the <b outputclass="bold">New Virtual Machine</b>
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| 32 | wizard. See <xref href="create-vm-wizard.dita#create-vm-wizard"/>.
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| 33 | </p>
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| 34 | <p>
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| 35 | Whereas the default settings of a newly created VM depend on
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| 36 | the selected OS type, changing the type later has no effect
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| 37 | on VM settings. This value is purely informational and
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| 38 | decorative.
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| 39 | </p>
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| 40 | </li>
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| 41 | <li>
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| 42 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Version:</b> The version of the
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| 43 | guest OS for the VM. This is the same setting that is
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| 44 | specified in the <b outputclass="bold">New Virtual
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| 45 | Machine</b> wizard. See
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| 46 | <xref href="create-vm-wizard.dita#create-vm-wizard"/>.
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| 47 | </p>
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| 48 | </li>
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| 49 | </ul>
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| 50 | </body>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | </topic>
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