1. Click Add and specify a Name for the profile.

2. Select the new profile, and then click Properties. Specify the following property values for the profile:

   • Compartment OCID

   • Fingerprint of the public key

   • Location of the private key on the client device

   • Region OCID

   • Tenancy OCID

   • User OCID

   Some of these are settings for your account, which you can view from the .

3. (Optional) If you are using the cloud profile to connect to cloud virtual machines, select the Show VMs check box.

   This creates a new subgroup of the OCI group in . See .

4. Click Apply to save your changes.

   The cloud profile settings are saved to the oci_config file in your global settings directory.

You can also use VBoxManage cloudprofile to create a cloud profile. See .