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Oracle VM VirtualBox
User Manual
Oracle Corporation
Table of Contents
1. First steps
Why is virtualization useful?
Some terminology
Features overview
Supported host operating systems
Installing and starting VirtualBox
Creating your first virtual machine
Running your virtual machine
Keyboard and mouse support in virtual machines
Changing removable media
Saving the state of the machine
Snapshots
Virtual machine configuration
Deleting virtual machines
Importing and exporting virtual machines
Alternative front-ends
2. Installation details
Installing on Windows hosts
Prerequisites
Performing the installation
Uninstallation
Unattended installation
Installing on Mac OS X hosts
Performing the installation
Uninstallation
Unattended installation
Installing on Linux hosts
Prerequisites
The VirtualBox kernel module
USB and advanced networking support
Performing the installation
Starting VirtualBox on Linux
Installing on Solaris hosts
Performing the installation
Starting VirtualBox on Solaris
Uninstallation
Unattended installation
Configuring a zone for running VirtualBox
3. Configuring virtual machines
Supported guest operating systems
Mac OS X Server guests
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64-bit guests
Emulated hardware
General settings
"Basic" tab
"Advanced" tab
"Description" tab
System settings
"Motherboard" tab
"Processor" tab
"Acceleration" tab
Display settings
Storage settings
Audio settings
Network settings
Serial ports
USB support
USB settings
Implementation notes for Windows and Linux hosts
Shared folders
Alternative firmware (EFI)
Video modes in EFI
4. Guest Additions
Introduction
Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions
Guest Additions for Windows
Guest Additions for Linux
Guest Additions for Solaris
Guest Additions for OS/2
Shared folders
Seamless windows
Hardware-accelerated video
Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9)
Hardware 2D video acceleration for Windows guests
Guest properties
Guest control
Memory ballooning
Page Fusion
5. Virtual storage
Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, SAS
Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD)
The Virtual Media Manager
Special image write modes
Differencing images
Cloning disk images
Disk images and I/O caching
CD/DVD drive operation
Writing CDs and DVDs using the host drive
iSCSI servers
Access iSCSI targets via Internal Networking
6. Virtual networking
Virtual networking hardware
Introduction to networking modes
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Configuring port forwarding with NAT
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9. Advanced topics
VirtualBox configuration data
VBoxSDL, the simplified VM displayer
Introduction
Secure labeling with VBoxSDL
Releasing modifiers with VBoxSDL on Linux
Automated guest logons
Automated Windows guest logons
Automated Linux/Unix guest logons
Advanced configuration for Windows guests
Automated Windows system preparation
CPU hot-plugging
Advanced display configuration
Custom VESA resolutions
Configuring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphical frontend
Custom external VRDP authentication
Advanced storage configuration
Using a raw host hard disk from a guest
Configuring the hard disk vendor product data (VPD)
Launching more than 120 VMs on Solaris hosts
Legacy commands for using serial ports
Fine-tuning the VirtualBox NAT engine
Configuring the address of a NAT network interface
Configuring the boot server (next server) of a NAT network interface
Tuning TCP/IP buffers for NAT
Binding NAT sockets to a specific interface
Enabling DNS proxy in NAT mode
Using the host's resolver as a DNS proxy in NAT mode
Configuring aliasing of the NAT engine
Configuring the BIOS DMI information
Fine-tuning timers and time synchronization
Configuring the guest time stamp counter (TSC) to reflect guest execution
Accelerate or slow down the guest clock
Tuning the Guest Additions time synchronization parameters
Configuring multiple host-only network interfaces on Solaris hosts
Locking down the GUI
10. Technical background
VirtualBox executables and components
Hardware vs. software virtualization
Details about software virtualization
Details about hardware virtualization
Nested paging and VPIDs
11. VirtualBox programming interfaces
12. Troubleshooting
Procedures and tools
Categorizing and isolating problems
Collecting debugging information
The built-in VM debugger
General
Guest shows IDE/SATA errors for file-based images on slow host file system
Responding to guest IDE/SATA flush requests
Windows guests
Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration
Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout)
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