We assume that you have already installed and updated 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!

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)

This is detailed in… the Update section

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