VirtualBox Operations

Internal

• VirtualBox Subjects

Virtual Machine Deletion

Power down.

Right click -> Remove.

Delete all files. This removes everything under ~/VirtualBox VMs/<machine-name>.

Creating and Installing a new Virtual Disk

Select the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and stop It.

Settings -> Storage -> Controller: SATA -> HD Icon + -> Create new disk -> VDI -> Size Dynamically Allocated.

Detected by the O/S as /dev/sdb.

This device then can be added to an existing Volume Group (see Linux Logical Volume Management Concepts), or it can be initialized with a different Volume Groups, etc.

When doing this, update Linux Logical Volume Management Concepts with details.

Getting Information about a Guest

Guest window -> Machine -> Session Information.

Managing an Environment from Command Line

VirtualBox Managing an Environment from Command Line