Sun Microsystems VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 user manual

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Main Contents Page Page Page Page Page Page 1 First steps 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? 1.2 Some terminology 1.3 Features overview Page 1.4 Supported host operating systems 1.5 Installing and starting VirtualBox Page Page Page Page Page 1.7 Running your virtual machine 1.7.1 Keyboardand mouse support in virtual machines Page 1.7.2 Changing removable media 1.7.3 Saving the state of the machine 1.8 Snapshots Page 1.9 Virtual machine conguration Page 1.10 Deleting virtual machines 1.11 Importing and exporting virtual machines Page Page 2 Installation details 2.1 Installing on Windows hosts 2.1.1 Prerequisites 2.1.2 Performingthe installation 2.1.3 Uninstallation 2.2 Installing on Mac OS X hosts 2.2.1 Performing the installation 2.2.2 Uninstallation 2.2.3 Unattended installation 2.3 Installing on Linux hosts 2.3.1 Prerequisites 2.3.2 The VirtualBox kernel module Page 2.3.3 USB and advanced networking support 2.3.4 Performing the installation Page Page Page Page 2.3.5 Starting VirtualBox on Linux 2.4 Installing on Solaris hosts 2.4.1 Performing the installation 2.4.2 StartingVirtualBox on Solaris 2.4.3 Uninstallation 2.4.4 Unattendedinstallation 2.4.5 Conguring a zone for running VirtualBox 3 Conguring virtual machines 3.1 Supported guest operating systems 3.2 64-bit guests 3.3 General settings 3.3.1 Basictab 3.3.2 Advancedtab 3.3.3 Description tab 3.4 System settings 3.4.1 Motherboard tab 3.4.2 Processor tab 3.4.3 Acceleration tab: hardware vs. software virtualization Page 3.5 Display settings 3.6 Storage settings Page Page 3.7 Audio settings 3.8 Network settings 3.9 Serial ports 3.10 USB support 3.10.1 USB settings Page 3.10.2 Implementation notes for Windows and Linux hosts 3.11 Shared folders 3.12 Alternative rmware (EFI) Page 4 Guest Additions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Versions 4.3 Windows Guest Additions 4.3.1 Installingthe Windows Guest Additions 4.3.2 Updating the Windows Guest Additions 4.3.3 Unattended Installation 4.3.4 Manual le extraction 4.3.5 Windows Vista networking 4.4 Linux Guest Additions 4.4.1 Installingthe Linux Guest Additions 4.4.2 Video acceleration and high resolution graphics modes 4.4.3 Updating the Linux Guest Additions 4.5 Solaris Guest Additions 4.5.1 Installing the Solaris Guest Additions 4.5.2 Uninstallingthe Solaris Guest Additions 4.5.3 Updatingthe Solaris Guest Additions 4.6 OS/2 Guest Additions 4.7 Folder sharing Page Page 4.8 Seamless windows 4.9 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) 4.10 Hardware 2D video acceleration for Windows guests 4.11 Guest properties Page 4 Guest Additions Toquery the value of a single property, use the get subcommand like this: 5 Virtual storage 5.1 Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA(AHCI), SCSI Page Page 5.2 Disk image les (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager 5.4 Special image write modes Page 5.5 Differencing images Page 5.6 Cloning disk images 5.7 Writing CDs and DVDs using the host drive 5.8 iSCSI servers 5.8.1 AccessiSCSI targets via Internal Networking Page 6 Virtual networking 6.1 Virtual networking hardware 6.2 Introduction to networking modes 6.3 Network Address Translation(NAT) 6.3.1 Conguringport forwarding with NAT 6.3.2 PXEbooting with NAT 6.3.3 NATlimitations 6.4 Bridged networking 6.5 Internal networking 6.6 Host-only networking Page 7 Alternative front-ends; remote virtual machines 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Using VBoxManage to control virtual machines 7.3 VBoxSDL, the simplied VM displayer 7.4 Remote virtual machines (VRDP support) 7.4.1 Common third-party RDP viewers 7.4.2 VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server 7.4.3 Step by step: creating a virtual machine on a headless server 7.4.4 Remote USB 7.4.5 RDPauthentication 7.4.6 RDP encryption 7.4.7 VRDP multiple connections 8 VBoxManage reference Page Page Page Page 8.1 VBoxManage list 8.2 VBoxManage showvminfo 8.3 VBoxManage registervm / unregistervm 8.4 VBoxManage createvm 8.5 VBoxManage modifyvm 8.5.1 Generalsettings Page 8.5.2 Networking settings 8.5.3 Serialport, audio, clipboard, VRDP and USB settings 8.6 VBoxManage import Page 8.7 VBoxManage export 8.8 VBoxManage startvm 8.9 VBoxManage controlvm 8.10 VBoxManage discardstate 8.11 VBoxManage snapshot 8.12 VBoxManage openmedium / closemedium 8.13 VBoxManage storagectl / storageattach 8.13.1 VBoxManage storagectl 8.13.2 VBoxManage storageattach 8.14 VBoxManage showhdinfo 8.15 VBoxManage createhd 8.16 VBoxManage modifyhd 8.17 VBoxManage clonehd 8.18 VBoxManage convertfromraw 8.19 VBoxManage addiscsidisk 8.20 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata 8.21 VBoxManage setproperty 8.22 VBoxManage usblter add/modify/remove 8.23 VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove 8.24 VBoxManage metrics 8.25 VBoxManage guestproperty 8.26 VBoxManage dhcpserver Page 9 Advanced topics 9.1 VirtualBox conguration data Page 9.2 Automated Windows guest logons 9.3 Automated Windows system preparation 9.4 Custom external VRDP authentication Page 9.5 Secure labeling with VBoxSDL 9.6 Custom VESA resolutions 9.7 Multiple monitors for the guest 9.8 Releasing modiers with VBoxSDL on Linux 9.9 Launching more than 120 VMs on Solaris hosts 9.10 Using serial ports 9.11 Using a raw host hard disk from a guest 9.11.1 Accessto entire physical hard disk 9.11.2 Accessto individual physical hard disk partitions Page 9.12 Allowing a virtual machine to start even with unavailable CD/DVD/oppy devices 9.13 Fine-tuning the VirtualBox NAT engine 9.13.1 Conguringthe address of a NAT network interface 9.13.2 Conguring the boot server (next server) of a NATnetwork interface 9.13.3 TuningTCP/IP buffers for NAT 9.13.4 Binding NATsockets to a specic interface 9.13.5 Enabling DNS proxy in NATmode 9.13.6 Using the hosts resolver as a DNS proxyin NAT mode 9.14 Conguring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphical frontend 9.15 Conguring the BIOS DMI information 9.16 Conguring the guest time stamp counter (TSC) to reect guest execution 9.17 Conguring the hard disk vendor product data (VPD) Page Page 11 Troubleshooting 11.1 General 11.1.1 Collecting debugging information 11.1.2 Guest shows IDE/SATAerrors for le-based images on slow host le system 11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE/SATA ush requests 11.2 Windows guests 11.2.1 Windows bluescreens after changing VM conguration 11.2.2 Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout) 11.2.3 Windows 2000 installation failures 11.2.4 How to recordbluescreen information from Windows guests 11.2.5 No networkingin Windows Vista guests 11.2.6 Windows guests maycause a high CPU load 11.3 Linux and X11 guests 11.3.1 Linuxguests may cause a high CPU load 11.3.2 AMDBarcelona CPUs 11.3.3 BuggyLinux 2.6 kernel versions 11.3.4 Sharedclipboard, auto-resizing and seamless desktop in X11 guests 11.4 Windows hosts 11.4.1 VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues 11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized 11.4.3 Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client 11.4.4 Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system 11.5 Linux hosts 11.5.1 Linuxkernel module refuses to load 11.5.2 Linuxhost CD/DVD drive not found 11.5.3 Linuxhost CD/DVD drive not found (older distributions) 11.5.4 Linux host oppy not found 11.5.5 Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD 11.5.6 VBoxSVC IPC issues 11.5.7 USB not working 11.5.8 PAX/grseckernels 11.5.9 Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted 11.6 Solaris hosts 11.6.1 Cannot start VM, not enough contiguous memory 11.6.2 VM aborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts 12 Change log 12.1 Version 3.1.0 Beta 2 (2009-11-19) Page 12.2 Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10) 12.3 Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29) 12.4 Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02) Page 12.5 Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09) Page Page 12.6 Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04) 12.7 Version3.0.2 (2009-07-10) Page 12.8 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30) Page Page 12.9 Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29) 12.10 Version2.2.2 (2009-04-27) Page 12.11 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08) Page Page 12.12 Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16) Page 12.13 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21) Page Page Page 12.14 Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17) Page 12.15 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10) 12.16 Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21) 12.17 Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24) 12.18 Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12) Page 12.19 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04) 12.20 Version 1.6.6 (2008-08-26) Page 12.21 Version 1.6.4 (2008-07-30) 12.22 Version 1.6.2 (2008-05-28) Page 12.23 Version 1.6.0 (2008-04-30) Page 12.24 Version 1.5.6 (2008-02-19) Page 12.25 Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29) Page 12.26 Version 1.5.2 (2007-10-18) Page 12.27 Version 1.5.0 (2007-08-31) Page Page 12.28 Version 1.4.0 (2007-06-06) Page Page 12.29 Version 1.3.8 (2007-03-14) 12.30 Version 1.3.6 (2007-02-20) 12.31 Version 1.3.4 (2007-02-12) 12.32 Version 1.3.2 (2007-01-15) 12.33 Version 1.2.4 (2006-11-16) 12.34 Version 1.2.2 (2006-11-14) 12.35 Version 1.1.12 (2006-11-14) 12.36 Version 1.1.10 (2006-07-28) 12.37 Version 1.1.8 (2006-07-17) 12.38 Version 1.1.6 (2006-04-18) 12.39 Version 1.1.4 (2006-03-09) 12.40 Version 1.1.2 (2006-02-03) Page 12.41 Version 1.0.50 (2005-12-16) 12.42 Version 1.0.48 (2005-11-23) 12.43 Version 1.0.46 (2005-11-04) 12.44 Version 1.0.44 (2005-10-25) 12.45 Version 1.0.42 (2005-08-30) 12.46 Version 1.0.40 (2005-06-17) 12.47 Version 1.0.39 (2005-05-05) 12.48 Version 1.0.38 (2005-04-27) 12.49 Version 1.0.37 (2005-04-12) 13 Known limitations Page Page 14 Third-party licenses 14.1 Materials Page 14.2 Licenses 14.2.1 GNU General Public License (GPL) Page Page Page Page 14.2.2 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Page Page Page Page Page Page 14.2.3 Mozilla Public License (MPL) Page Page Page Page Page Page 14.2.4 MIT License 14.2.5 X Consortium License (X11) 14.2.6 zlib license 14.2.7 OpenSSL license 14.2.8 Slirplicense 14.2.9 liblzf license 14.2.10 libpng license 14.2.11 lwIP license 14.2.12 libxml license 14.2.13 libxslt licenses 14.2.14 gSOAP Public License Version1.3a Page Page Page Page Page 14.2.15 Chromiumlicenses Page Page 14.2.16 curl license 15 VirtualBox privacy policy Page Glossary A B C D E G I M N O P R S U V X