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Hi,

I'm brand new to VirtualBox and have just installed latest VirtualBox under MacOSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 in 64 bit mode on my 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with 8 gigs memory. I want to run Mountain Lion in VirtualBox under Snow Leopard.

Question #1. I have my Hard Drive in four partitions, one dedicated to Mountain Lion which is installed and I want to run Mountain Lion from this partition. The manual says I can allocate my real media in the Virtual Media Manager, but there is no File menu in the VirtualBox main window, see attached screenshot .

[Thanks, Chip, for resolution below, screenshot now deleted.]

What am I missing? How do I do this?

Question #2. I sort of expected Mountain Lion to look like a Mac OS, rather than Unix, about which I know nothing. How do I get a regular Mountain Lion interface?

Thanks for all and any help, Cris

Your screenshot is of the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager" window. That is not the VirtualBox main window.

In the upper left corner of the display (physical display) is the Apple-Icon then VirtualBox then File then Machine then Window then Help; these comprise the main application window for VirtualBox in OS X

Thanks, Chip, I've now found that menu, but it only lists the one virtual file that I made to get it going. My real disks are shown on the right of the screenshot.
Question #1. How do i get it to use the real disk partition S-MLion that's already allocated (and already has Mountain Lion on it)? Can I use my real disk rather than a virtual one?

Question #2. And how do I get to see the regular Mac Interface instead of Unix in the Mountain Lion that it reports is running in the VirtualBox window?

Appreciate any and all help, Cris

in section Howtos and Tutorials
you can find topic How to Use a MacOS Bootcamp Partition as a VirtualBox Guest.
The topic contains the information you seek, even though it is geared for the BootCamp partition.

Also. you should try reading the manual, User Manual.