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The CHARON installation procedure creates a shortcut on the desktop and under "the Windows Start " menu for the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager.

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Stopping a CHARON Virtual Machine

 Note: before stopping the virtual machine from the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager, a clean shutdown of the operating system running on the VM has to be performed.

Select the target CHARON VM in the left pane and press the "Stop" button. A dialog will appear to confirm, select "Yes" to continue to stop the VM:

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Removing a CHARON Virtual Machine

It is also possible to To remove a CHARON VM completely by selecting , select it and pressing the "Remove VM" button:

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 The Virtual machine has to be stopped before removing it (see Stopping a CHARON Virtual Machine chapter above)

CHARON Virtual Machines Manager will ask for confirmationA confirmation dialog will be displayed:

Press the "Remove" button and confirm the CHARON VM removing removal by pressing the "Yes" button:

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• Explore the Home Directory of the CHARON VM.
• Create virtual disks (press by pressing the "Create Virtual Disks" button).
• Edit CHARON Edit the CHARON VM configuration file.
• Change the startup mode.
• Select the CHARON version used for this Virtual Machine.

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Press the "Explore" button to open up a Windows Explorer window showing the content of the selected CHARON VM home folder:

 This content includes the CHARON VM configuration file , and may also include virtual disk disks and tape tapes images, logs, ROM files, etc.

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The MkDisk utility will be called for this operation:

Refer to the "Utilities" section of this User's Guide for more information about the MkDisk utility.

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Press the "Edit Configuration file" button to open the CHARON VM configuration file in Windows default text editor:

Alternatively it is possible to select the target CHARON VM and press the "Change VMEdit Configuration" button:

The configuration file specifies all the settings of the CHARON VM. It This will be discussed in the next chapter.

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CHARON Virtual Machine startup mode

Select By default, the CHARON VM startup behavior in the "Startup type" drop down list:

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By default this setting mode is set to "Manual" ; it assumes that meaning a user should run has to start the CHARON VM manually from CHARON using the CHARON Virtual Machines Manager after a host reboot. If the CHARON VM has to start automatically, select the "Automatic" option.

Setting the mode to "Automatic" will only start the CHARON VM, it will not boot the operating system. This part will be discussed in the next chapter.

Select the CHARON VM startup behavior in the "Startup type" drop down list:

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CHARON version to be used for CHARON VM

The CHARON installation procedure allows several versions of CHARON to be installed on the host at the same time (V4.12 and later only). This option can be used for testing.

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Select the target CHARON version from the "Executable" drop-down box list and press the "Apply" button:

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Service functions

CHARON Virtual Machines Manager also provides the following additional functionality useful for starting CHARON and controlling its executionAdditional functionalities are available and described below:

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Select the "Host Information & Utilities" tab to get a quick access to the most useful CHARON utilities:

Press the corresponding button to open up the target utilityThese utilities are described below:
 

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