On Tuesday 14 December 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i notice that, under basic settings, you can change an installed > VM's "Operating System" and/or "Version". but what's the value in > that? if i installed, say, a 64-bit version of ubuntu, what would be > the point in suddenly deciding to call it, say, solaris? > > or am i missing something here?
Once you installed the guest there is indeed no technical reason to change the OS type. The OS type is only used for choosing sane default values for the corresponding guest. Although it might be sometimes usesful to change the value for cosmetical reasons. Kind regards, Frank -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Werkstrasse 24 Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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