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Guest Additions
Virtual networking
VirtualBox programming interfaces 143
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Known limitations 213 Third-party licenses 216
VirtualBox privacy policy 253 Glossary 255
Virtualization basics
Introduction
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Software vs. hardware virtualization VT-x and AMD-V
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Features overview
Introduction
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Windows hosts
Supported host operating systems
Supported guest operating systems
64-bit guests
Installing on Windows hosts
Installation
Performing the installation
Prerequisites
Uninstallation
Installing on Mac OS X hosts
Unattended installation
VirtualBox kernel module
Installing on Linux hosts
On a Fedora system
USB and advanced networking support
Installing VirtualBox from a Debian/Ubuntu package
Using the alternative installer VirtualBox.run
Performing a manual installation
Updating and uninstalling VirtualBox
And, for convenience, create the following symbolic links
Automatic installation of .rpm packages
Automatic installation of Debian packages
Starting VirtualBox on Linux
Installing on Solaris hosts
Starting VirtualBox on Solaris
5 Configuring a zone for running VirtualBox
Starting the graphical user interface
Starting out with VirtualBox
Creating a virtual machine
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Basics of virtual machine configuration
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Running a virtual machine
Capturing and releasing keyboard and mouse
Keyboard and mouse support in virtual machines
Typing special characters
Saving the state of the machine
Changing removable media
Snapshots
Starting out with VirtualBox
Virtual Disk Manager
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Deleting virtual machines
Virtual machine settings
Basic tab
General settings
Advanced tab
Description tab
System settings
Motherboard tab
Processor tab
Acceleration tab
Display settings
Hard disk settings
5 CD/DVD-ROM and floppy settings
Network settings
Audio settings
Serial ports
USB support
USB settings
VBoxManage list usbhost
Shared folders
Importing and exporting virtual machines
Implementation notes for Windows and Linux hosts
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Starting out with VirtualBox
Introduction
Guest Additions
Windows Guest Additions
Mounting the Additions ISO file
Installing the Windows Guest Additions
Updating the Windows Guest Additions
Running the installer
Manual file extraction
Linux Guest Additions
Windows Vista networking
Installing the Linux Guest Additions
Updating the Linux Guest Additions
Video acceleration and high resolution graphics modes
Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions
Installing the Solaris Guest Additions
Solaris Guest Additions
Folder sharing
OS/2 Guest Additions
Updating the Solaris Guest Additions
A Solaris guest, use the following command
Seamless windows
Hardware 3D acceleration OpenGL and DirectX 8/9
Guest properties
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Guest Additions
Hard disk controllers IDE, Sata AHCI, Scsi
Virtual storage
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Disk image files VDI, VMDK, VHD
Configuring image write operations
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Cloning disk images
Access iSCSI targets via Internal Networking
ISCSI servers
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Virtual networking hardware
Virtual networking
Introduction to networking modes
Network Address Translation NAT
Not attached mode
1 Configuring port forwarding with NAT
NAT limitations
PXE booting with NAT
Bridged networking
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Internal networking
Host-only networking
Alternative front-ends remote virtual machines
Using VBoxManage to control virtual machines
VBoxSDL, the simplified VM displayer
Remote virtual machines Vrdp support
VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server
Step by step creating a virtual machine on a headless server
VBoxManage createhd Filename WinXP.vdi --size Remember
Remote USB
RDP authentication
RDP encryption
Vrdp multiple connections
VBoxManage reference
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Serialnumber string
VBoxManage showvminfo
VBoxManage list
Uuid
VBoxManage registervm / unregistervm
VBoxManage modifyvm
VBoxManage createvm
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Storage settings
Networking settings
Serial port, audio, clipboard, Vrdp and USB settings
VBoxManage import
VBoxManage export
VBoxManage startvm
VBoxManage controlvm
VBoxManage snapshot
VBoxManage discardstate
VBoxManage openmedium / closemedium
VBoxManage createhd
VBoxManage showhdinfo
VBoxManage clonehd
VBoxManage modifyhd
VBoxManage convertfromraw
VBoxManage addiscsidisk
VBoxManage setproperty
VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata
VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove
VBoxManage usbfilter add/modify/remove
VBoxManage metrics
VBoxManage query test CPU/Load/User,CPU/Load/Kernel
VBoxManage guestproperty
VBoxManage dhcpserver
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VirtualBox configuration data
Advanced topics
Automated Windows guest logons VBoxGINA
Custom external Vrdp authentication
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Changing this label will take effect immediately
Secure labeling with VBoxSDL
Custom Vesa resolutions
Releasing modifiers with VBoxSDL on Linux
Multiple monitors for the guest
Launching more than 120 VMs on Solaris hosts
Using serial ports
Access to entire physical hard disk
Using a raw host hard disk from a guest
Access to individual physical hard disk partitions
VBoxManage internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk /dev/sda
12.1 Configuring the address of a NAT network interface
Fine-tuning the VirtualBox NAT engine
Binding NAT sockets to a specific interface
Tuning TCP/IP buffers for NAT
Enabling DNS proxy in NAT mode
14 Configuring the Bios DMI information
DMI system information can be obtained with
16 Configuring the hard disk vendor product data VPD
VirtualBox programming interfaces
Guest shows IDE errors for VDI on slow host file system
Troubleshooting
General
Collecting debugging information
Responding to guest IDE flush requests
Windows 2000 installation failures
Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled IPI timeout
Windows guests
Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration
Linux guests
How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests
No networking in Windows Vista guests
Windows guests may cause a high CPU load
Windows hosts
VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues
AMD Barcelona CPUs
Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions
11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized
Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client
Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system
Linux hosts
Linux kernel module refuses to load
Linux host CD/DVD drive not found
Linux host CD/DVD drive not found older distributions
Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD
Linux host floppy not found
USB not working
VBoxSVC IPC issues
11.5.8 PAX/grsec kernels Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted
Solaris hosts
VM aborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts
Cannot start VM, not enough contiguous memory
Version 3.0.0
Change log
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Version 2.2.4
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Version 2.2.2
Version 2.2.0
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Version 2.1.4
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Version 2.1.2
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Version 2.1.0
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Version 2.0.8
Version 2.0.6
Version 2.0.4
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Version 2.0.2
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Version 2.0.0
Version 1.6.6
Version 1.6.4
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Version 1.6.2
Version 1.6.0
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Version 1.5.6
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Version 1.5.4
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Version 1.5.2
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Version 1.5.0
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Version 1.4.0
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Version 1.3.8
Version 1.3.6
Version 1.3.4
Version 1.3.2
Version 1.2.2
Version 1.2.4
Version 1.1.12
Version 1.1.8
Version 1.1.10
Version 1.1.4
Version 1.1.6
Version 1.1.2
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Version 1.0.48
Version 1.0.50
Version 1.0.44
Version 1.0.46
Version 1.0.42
Version 1.0.40
Version 1.0.38
Version 1.0.39
Version 1.0.37
Following Guest SMP multiprocessor limitations exist
Known limitations
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Materials
Third-party licenses
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GNU General Public License GPL
Licenses
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No Warranty
GNU Lesser General Public License Lgpl
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Mozilla Public License MPL
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Disclaimer of Warranty
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Third-party licenses
Zlib license
Consortium License
OpenSSL license
Liblzf license
Slirp license
LwIP license
Libpng license
Libxslt licenses
Libxml license
Definitions
GSOAP Public License Version 1.3a
Source Code License
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Inability to Comply DUE to Statute or Regulation
Limitation of Liability
Exhibit a
Main license
Chromium licenses
COPYRIGHT.LLNL file
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COPYRIGHT.REDHAT file
Curl license
Dnsproxy license
VirtualBox privacy policy
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Glossary
Apic See Apic
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