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This chapter provides the information on configuration options available to a virtual machine.
In This Chapter
Editing Virtual Machine Configuration ................................................................................ 104
Adding and Removing Devices.............................................................................................143
Networking in a Virtual Machine.......................................................................................... 162
Editing Virtual Machine
Configuration
The configuration of an existing virtual machine can be changed in the Virtual Machine
Configuration dialog. You can open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog by doing one of
the following:
 Choose Configure from the Virtual Machine menu.
 Click the Configure button on the toolbar of the virtual machine main window.
 Right-clicking the virtual machine in the main window sidebar and choosing Configure from
the context menu.
 Selecting Configure in the Operations area of the virtual machine Summary pane or clicking
any of the items in the Configuration area.
Virtual Machine Configuration allows you to configure your virtual machine in a variety of
ways. For example, you can
 Configure the virtual machine general options on the General pane (p. 105).
 Define the virtual machine
boot options on the Boot pane (p. 107).
 Configure different para
meters of the devices currently available inside the virtual machine:
hard disk drives (p. 129), CD/DVD-ROM drives (p. 127), floppy disk drives (p. 126), etc.
 Configure the resource va
lues currently set for the virtual machine: main memory (p. 123),
video m
emory (p. 124), CPU (p. 122), etc.
 Add a new device to the vir
tual machine or remove an existing one (p. 143).
C HAPTER 7
Configuring a Virtual Machine