other:vb:use
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Table of Contents
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.
Starting VB
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
other/vb/use.1420801949.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/01/09 11:12 by jypeter
