Oracle VM VirtualBox - Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials - page 151

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Because the file permission and ownership abstractions may not translate di-
rectly between the host operating system and that of the guest, the user starting
the virtual machine in the host must have appropriate access to the files being
shared. Inside the guest, the owner and group are set by mount options—in this
case, user 1234 and group 5678 .
5.5 Creating and Managing Oracle VM VirtualBox Guests
After you have installed VirtualBox, you can create guests. While this can be
accomplished using command-line tools, the first example given here uses the
VirtualBox GUI installation wizard.
5.5.1 Creating the Guest Machine
Yo u c a n s t a r t t o i n s t a l l a g u e s t m a c h i n e b y l a u n c h i n g t h e Vi r t u a l B o x t o o l :
% VirtualBox &
Figure 5.9 shows the initial VirtualBox screen.
To begin creating the first virtual machine, click the New button. This will
launch the New Virtual Machine Wizard.
The first step is to name the new virtual machine and choose the operating
system of the guest. The name of the guest is unrelated to its actual host name
or network identity; those identities will be set later, once the guest is running.
The guest name is only used by VirtualBox to identify the guest being managed.
The operating system type determines how VirtualBox will emulate devices and
which code scanning techniques to use when running the guest kernel code. The
name of the guest can be changed later, but the OS type should be correct before
creating the guest.