This is handy if you want to have a single computer for doing all the wonderful things windows is good for AND for doing hardware development or other advanced things that Windows is not good for.Ģ) Install an operating system on the virtual machineģ) Execute commands on the operating system on the virtual machineĤ) Windows 7 (though this process can be done on most OS's, this tutorial is for W7. It uses the hardware and parts of the system resources of your current machine. A virtual machine is a program which simulates a completely independent computer with its own inputs, networking, memory, hard and optical drives, and so forth. There's a lot of hand-holding.which is what I needed the first time I did this.įirst, a very very brief description of a virtual machine. This is a very basic tutorial and is made for folks who aren't comfortable yet with VM's. This instructable will guide you in the installation of a virtual machine and the installation of a second operating system, in this case-Ubuntu (Linux). I'm doing this so that I can use my awesome laptop for sending commands to BeagleBoard. That means if you have the habit of using that Right Ctrl in your day to day usage (like editing a file), you could end up triggering a VirtualBox guest feature without knowing it.Hey folks, this is Zack with your hot-off-the-press instructable. Note: by default the Host key is the Right Ctrl key. Now they can be sure that the menu & status bar will fit your window as expected. So hitting Host + C again fixes the issue because it gets you out of the Scaled Mode.

This is great, but the side effect is that the VirtualBox system removes the menu & status bar because these may not fit properly when you resize your window in that mode.

The feature that let you change the size of your guest window to whatever dimensions you'd like (it does not even have to be a standard 4:3 or 16:9). » Keyboard Settings.), the Host + C is assigned to the Scaled Mode function. Looking at the list of hotkeys (From the menu: Input » Keyboard. I had a similar problem where the menus & status bar were gone.

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