Specifications

Basic System Administration
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3 (Optional)Poweroffthevirtualmachine.
Mostofthepropertiesofavirtualmachinecanbechangedonlywhileitispowered
off,butyoucanopenthepropertieseditorregardlessofthepowerstate.Manyof
thecontrolsareread‐onlyifthevirtualmachineisnotpoweredoff.
4To
displaytheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogbox,clicktheEditSettingslinkin
theCommandspanel.
TheVirtualMachinePropertiesdialogboxisdisplayed.Therearethreetabs:
Hardware,Options,andResources.
5 Selectatabandproceedtooneofthefollowingsections:
 “ChangingtheHardwareConfigurationofaVirtualMachine”onpage 180
 “ChangingVirtualMachineOptions”onpage 186
 “ChangingVirtualMachineResourceSettings”onpage 192
Changing the Hardware Configuration of a Virtual Machine
Thissectiondescribeshowtochangetheconfigurationofexistingvirtualhardware
devicesinavirtualmachine.
Youcanadd,edit,orremovehardwarefromyourvirtualmachineusingthiswizard.
Thestatusofthedevice,suchaseditedoradding,isdisplayedinparenthesesnextto
thehardwarelisting.The
selectedguestoperatingsystemdeterminesthedevicesthat
areavailabletobeaddedtoagivenvirtualmachine.Thedevicesthatcanbe addedare:
 Serialport
 Parallelport
 Floppydrive
 DVD/CD‐ROMdrive
 Ethernetadapter
 Harddisk
 SCSIdevice
To change the DVD/CD-ROM drive configuration
1ClicktheHardwaretab.
2ClicktheDVD/CD‐ROMdriveintheHardwarelist.
3Makechangesasneededtothedevicestatus,connection,orvirtualdevicenodefor
thevirtualmachinetouse.