On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:51:09 -0500, John wrote: > My only issue with that boot order you mentioned is that the presence > of data corruption or virus on the disk could interfere with it and > possibly prevent it from booting; so I avoid this possibility by > allowing a CD before a disk since I might want to use a CD utility > for recovery of data, etc. You may very well be right that F12 would > avoid the disk entirely, but I figured that this functionality would > be a function of the BIOS only, which in the case of a VM does not > seem applicable. But I could surely be way wrong about that point.
It's quite rare that your VM wouldn't boot under normal usage, but if/when that does happen, you could either hit F12 at the virtualbox bios prompt and choose to boot from CD, or you could change the boot order then, either via the GUI or command-line utilities. > If I understand you right, after starting the guest, you would > right-click the CD icon in the lower right of the VB Manager window > and select the top option for "Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file" and > this would let you read the ISO file with a virtual drive in the VM. > Is that right? Yes, exactly. Or with the guest stopped, edit the VM settings (same place you could change the boot order), and browse for the ISO there. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
