Using VirtualBox

Important reminder: VB: VirtualBox VM: virtual machine VB host: the machine and operating system where the VB program is running. VB guest: the operating system (or VM) running inside VB.

We assume that you have already installed and updated VB

Starting VB

Start the Oracle VM VirtualBox application

The available VM should appear in the upper left part of the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and can be in different states

Stopped:

Saved: you have finished your previous session by saving the current state of the VM. When you click on Start, VB will restore the VM in exactly the same state it was at the end of the session. This is the fastest way to resume working!

Once the VM is started/restored, it's OK to close the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window!

Basic use of the VB

Some useful things to configure

The following settings can probably be done with any Linux environment, but the precise details below apply to the Cinnamon window manager

Add some useful things to panel bar at the bottom of the screen

Right click on an empty part of the bar -> Add applets to the panel

Add Workspace switcher

Add Window list

Add System Monitor (there are several available, use sysmonitor@orcus). Right-click on it -> Settings -> only keep the CPU and Memory graphs

Right click on the on the Panel Launchers (the part of the panel with the Firefox, Thunderbird, Terminal and Files) -> Add

to add an xterm launcher:
Name: xterm
Command
xterm -ls -sl 1000 -bg black -fg white
Click on the icon in the upper left corner and choose an icon (eg in /usr/share/icons/gnome)

Updating VB

This is detailed in... the Update section

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