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After the CD-ROM disk image is registered with the Virtual Media Manager, it
should be available as a CD-ROM device selection on the guest storage settings,
as shown in Figure 5.20. Alternatively, if you start the guest with a new boot disk
and fail to assign a CD-ROM, VirtualBox will launch the Virtual Media Manager
so that you can select an existing image or register a new one. When this process
is complete, the image will automatically be attached to the CD-ROM device and
the guest will continue the booting process.
Figure 5.20
Selecting the Installation Media for the Guest
All that is left to do is start the guest machine. However, first we will show the
creation of a guest using the
VBoxManage
command line.
The command-line interface (CLI) for VirtualBox is more complicated to use than
the GUI, but it offers several advantages:
The CLI is more flexible than the GUI.
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The CLI offers features not available from the GUI.
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The CLI can be used to script guest creation.
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Scripts using the CLI can be used to build an automated guest creation
system.
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