Installing a new guest operating system – Kanguru RocIT Defender User Manual

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ROCIT DEFENDER™

USER’S GUIDE

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5.2.

Devices Taskbar Menu

USB Devices – Mouse over the “USB Devices” option and a list of USB

connected devices will be displayed. Devices that have a checkmark next to
them are currently connected to the virtual machine. Devices that do not
have a checkmark next to them are not in use by the virtual machine.
CAUTION! Do not try to select the Kanguru Defender drive. Selecting the
Kanguru Defender drive in USB Devices will cause the virtual machine to crash.

Network Adapters – Select the Network Adapters option to configure a

network adapter for connecting the virtual machine to the internet.

Shared Folders – Not applicable to RocIT Defender.

Enable/Disable Remote Display – There is a built-in server for remote

desktop protocol, which allows the user to see the output of a virtual
machine’s window remotely on any other computer and control the virtual
machine from there, as if the virtual machine was running locally.

Install Guest Additions – Guest additions add some extra features that

improve the performance between the guest operating system and the host
operating system. This option must be run after a new operating system is
installed on the RocIT Defender drive.

Installing a New Guest Operating System

The RocIT Defender drive comes preloaded with a demo version of Windows XP.
However, it is easy to install other operating systems on the RocIT Defender drive.
Each new OS that is added becomes another Virtual Machine (VM) that is managed
within the ViSoS Runtime Environment (see Section 4 on page 8 for VRE details).

6.1.

Creating a New Virtual Machine (VM)

Before installing a new OS, the first step is to create a new Virtual Machine (VM)
within the VRE (see Section 4.3 page 9 for details on how to access the VRE). A VM is
the container into which the new OS will be installed. In the VRE, select menu option
Applications --> System Tools --> Oracle VM VirtualBox. This will launch the
Oracle VirtualBox graphical interface application. A list of VM's that are available
upon the drive will be presented in the left panel of the application. At this point,
there will only be the RocIT Defender in the list. The panel on the right provides
details of each Virtual Machine selected on the left.