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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]]
Note that VirtualBox will only display this wizard the first time a virtual machine is run, regardless of whether the guest operating system installation is successful or not. If the installation fails the first time, you will need to know how to manually configure a virtual CD/DVD drive. This topic is covered in the [[Configuring VirtualBox Virtual Machine Settings]] chapter of this book.
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:
