Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 user manual

Sun VirtualBox R

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User Manual

Version 3.0.0

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2004-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

http://www.virtualbox.org

Contents

Main Contents Page Page Page Page Page Page 1 Introduction 1.1 Virtualization basics Page 1.2 Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) Page 1.3 Features overview Page Page 1.4 Supported host operating systems 1.5 Supported guest operating systems 1.6 64-bit guests 2 Installation 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 Unattended installation 2.4.5 Conguring a zone for running VirtualBox 3 Starting out with VirtualBox 3.1 Starting the graphical user interface 3.2 Creating a virtual machine Page Page Page 3.3 Basics of virtual machine conguration Page 3.4 Running a virtual machine 3.4.1 Keyboard and mouse support in virtual machines Page 3.4.2 Changing removable media 3.4.3 Saving the state of the machine 3.4.4 Snapshots 3.5 The Virtual Disk Manager Page 3.6 Deleting virtual machines 3.7 Virtual machine settings 3.7.1 General settings 3.7.2 System settings Page 3.7.3 Display settings 3.7.4 Hard disk settings 3.7.5 CD/DVD-ROMand oppy settings 3.7.6 Audiosettings 3.7.7 Networksettings 3.7.8 Serial ports 3.7.9 USB support Page 3.7.10 Shared folders 3.8 Importing and exporting virtual machines Page Page Page 4 Guest Additions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Windows Guest Additions 4.2.1 Installing the Windows Guest Additions 4.2.2 Updating the Windows Guest Additions 4.2.3 Unattended Installation 4.2.4 Manual le extraction 4.2.5 Windows Vista networking 4.3 Linux Guest Additions 4.3.1 Installing the Linux Guest Additions 4.3.2 Video acceleration and high resolution graphics modes 4.3.3 Updating the Linux Guest Additions 4.4 Solaris Guest Additions 4.4.1 Installingthe Solaris Guest Additions 4.4.2 Uninstallingthe Solaris Guest Additions 4.4.3 Updating the Solaris Guest Additions 4.5 OS/2 Guest Additions 4.6 Folder sharing Page 4.7 Seamless windows 4.8 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and DirectX 8/9) 4.9 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 5.2 Disk image les (VDI, VMDK, VHD) 5.3 Conguring image write operations Page 5.4 Cloning disk images 5.5 iSCSI servers 5.5.1 AccessiSCSI targets via Internal Networking Page 6 Virtual networking 6.1 Virtual networking hardware 6.2 Introduction to networking modes 6.3 Not attached mode 6.4 Network Address Translation(NAT) 6.4.1 Conguringport forwarding with NAT 6.4.2 PXEbooting with NAT 6.4.3 NATlimitations 6.5 Bridged networking Page 6.6 Internal networking 6.7 Host-only networking 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 VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server 7.4.2 Step by step: creating a virtual machine on a headless server Page 7.4.3 Remote USB 7.4.4 RDP authentication 7.4.5 RDP encryption 7.4.6 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 Storage settings 8.5.3 Networking settings 8.5.4 Serial port, audio, clipboard, VRDP and USB settings 8.6 VBoxManage import 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 showhdinfo 8.14 VBoxManage createhd 8.15 VBoxManage modifyhd 8.16 VBoxManage clonehd 8.17 VBoxManage convertfromraw 8.18 VBoxManage addiscsidisk 8.19 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata 8.20 VBoxManage setproperty 8.21 VBoxManage usblter add/modify/remove 8.22 VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove 8.23 VBoxManage metrics Page 8.24 VBoxManage guestproperty 8.25 VBoxManage dhcpserver Page 9 Advanced topics 9.1 VirtualBox conguration data 9.2 Automated Windows guest logons (VBoxGINA) 9.3 Custom external VRDP authentication Page 9.4 Secure labeling with VBoxSDL 9.5 Custom VESA resolutions 9.6 Multiple monitors for the guest 9.7 Releasing modiers with VBoxSDL on Linux 9.8 Launching more than 120 VMs on Solaris hosts 9.9 Using serial ports 9.10 Using a raw host hard disk from a guest 9.10.1 Accessto entire physical hard disk 9.10.2 Accessto individual physical hard disk partitions Page 9.11 Allowing a virtual machine to start even with unavailable CD/DVD/oppy devices 9.12 Fine-tuning the VirtualBox NAT engine 9.12.1 Conguringthe address of a NAT network interface 9.12.2 Conguringthe boot server (next server) of a NAT network interface 9.12.3 TuningTCP/IP buffers for NAT 9.12.4 Binding NATsockets to a specic interface 9.12.5 Enabling DNS proxy in NATmode 9.13 Conguring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphical frontend 9.14 Conguring the BIOS DMI information 9.15 Conguring the guest time stamp counter (TSC) to reect guest execution 9.16 Conguring the hard disk vendor product data (VPD) Page 11 Troubleshooting 11.1 General 11.1.1 Collecting debugging information 11.1.2 Guest shows IDE errors for VDI on slow host le system 11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE ush requests 11.2 Windows guests 11.2.1 Windowsbluescreens after changing VM conguration 11.2.2 Windows0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout) 11.2.3 Windows2000 installation failures 11.2.4 How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests 11.3 Linux guests 11.3.1 Linux guests may cause a high CPU load 11.3.2 AMD Barcelona CPUs 11.3.3 Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions 11.4 Windows hosts 11.4.1 VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues 11.4.2 CD/DVDchanges not recognized 11.4.3 Sluggishresponse 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 Linux kernel module refuses to load 11.5.2 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found 11.5.3 Linux host 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 Cannotstart VM, not enough contiguous memory 11.6.2 VMaborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts 12 Change log 12.1 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30) Page Page 12.2 Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29) Page 12.3 Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27) 12.4 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08) Page Page Page 12.5 Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16) Page 12.6 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21) Page Page 12.7 Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17) Page 12.8 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10) 12.9 Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21) 12.10 Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24) Page 12.11 Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12) Page 12.12 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04) 12.13 Version 1.6.6 (2008-08-26) 12.14 Version1.6.4 (2008-07-30) Page 12.15 Version 1.6.2 (2008-05-28) 12.16 Version 1.6.0 (2008-04-30) Page 12.17 Version 1.5.6 (2008-02-19) Page 12.18 Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29) Page 12.19 Version 1.5.2 (2007-10-18) Page 12.20 Version 1.5.0 (2007-08-31) Page Page 12.21 Version 1.4.0 (2007-06-06) Page Page 12.22 Version 1.3.8 (2007-03-14) 12.23 Version 1.3.6 (2007-02-20) 12.24 Version 1.3.4 (2007-02-12) 12.25 Version 1.3.2 (2007-01-15) 12.26 Version 1.2.4 (2006-11-16) 12.27 Version 1.2.2 (2006-11-14) 12.28 Version 1.1.12 (2006-11-14) 12.29 Version 1.1.10 (2006-07-28) 12.30 Version 1.1.8 (2006-07-17) 12.31 Version 1.1.6 (2006-04-18) 12.32 Version 1.1.4 (2006-03-09) 12.33 Version 1.1.2 (2006-02-03) Page 12.34 Version 1.0.50 (2005-12-16) 12.35 Version 1.0.48 (2005-11-23) 12.36 Version 1.0.46 (2005-11-04) 12.37 Version 1.0.44 (2005-10-25) 12.38 Version 1.0.42 (2005-08-30) 12.39 Version 1.0.40 (2005-06-17) 12.40 Version 1.0.39 (2005-05-05) 12.41 Version 1.0.38 (2005-04-27) 12.42 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 X Consortium License (X11) 14.2.5 zlib license 14.2.6 OpenSSL license 14.2.7 Slirplicense 14.2.8 liblzflicense 14.2.9 libpng license 14.2.10 lwIP license 14.2.11 libxml license 14.2.12 libxslt licenses 14.2.13 gSOAP Public License Version1.3a Page Page Page Page Page Page 14.2.14 Chromium licenses Page 14.2.15 curl license 14.2.16 dnsproxy license 15 VirtualBox privacy policy Page Glossary A B C D 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