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== The VirtualBox First Run Wizard ==
It may not have gone unnoticed that none of the above steps involved configuring a CD or DVD drive for the virtual machine. This raises the obvious question of how to install the guest operating system.
Fortunately, this issue is resolved by the VirtualBox ''First Run Wizard''. This wizard is invoked automatically when a new virtual machine which has a new virtual disk as the boot device (VirtualBox assumes that an existing virtual disk already has a guest operating system installed on it) is started as illustrated in the following figure:
[[Image:virtualbox_first_run_wizard.jpg|The VirtualBox First Run Wizard]]
The purpose of the First Run Wizard is to configure the virtual machine so that it can find the guest operating system installation media. Clicking ''Next>'' on the ''Welcome'' screen displays the ''Select Installation Media'' settings screen as shown in the following figure:
[[Image:virtualbox_select_installation_media.jpg|Selecting installation media for a new VirtualBox virtual machine]]
The installation media may be in the form of a physical CD, DVD or floppy installed into a drive connected to the host computer system. Alternatively, the media may be an ISO image file which is accessible to the host operating system.
In the case of physical media, select the ''Host Drive'' from the ''Media Source'' section of the screen and select the drive into which the disk has been mounted.
When using an ISO image file, the file must first be added to the VirtualBox virtual media library. If the image file has not already been added, click on the button next to the ISO image name to launch the Virtual Media Manager, click the ''Add'' button and navigate to the file. Once the file has been added by the Virtual Media Manager it will appear in the drop down list of files ready for selection.
Once the selection has been made, click ''Next>'', review the summary information displayed and click ''Finish'' to boot the virtual machine and begin the guest installation process from the designated media:
[[Image:virtualbox_running_vm.jpg|WIndows Vista installation in a VirtualBox virtual machine]]
