Contents
3.4.2 Changing removable media .....................41
3.4.3 Saving the state of the machine ..................41
3.4.4 Snapshots ..............................42
3.5 The Virtual Disk Manager ..........................43
3.6 Deleting virtual machines ..........................45
3.7 Virtual machine settings ...........................45
3.7.1 General settings ...........................46
3.7.2 System settings ...........................47
3.7.3 Display settings ........................... 49
3.7.4 Hard disk settings ..........................50
3.7.5 CD/DVD-ROM and floppy settings ................. 51
3.7.6 Audio settings ............................52
3.7.7 Network settings ...........................52
3.7.8 Serial ports ..............................53
3.7.9 USB support .............................54
3.7.10 Shared folders ............................56
3.8 Importing and exporting virtual machines ................. 56
4 Guest Additions 60
4.1 Introduction ................................. 60
4.2 Windows Guest Additions .......................... 61
4.2.1 Installing the Windows Guest Additions .............. 62
4.2.2 Updating the Windows Guest Additions .............. 63
4.2.3 Unattended Installation ....................... 63
4.2.4 Manual file extraction ........................ 64
4.2.5 Windows Vistanetworking ..................... 64
4.3 Linux Guest Additions ............................ 64
4.3.1 Installing the Linux Guest Additions ................ 65
4.3.2 Videoacceleration and high resolution graphics modes ..... 66
4.3.3 Updating the Linux Guest Additions ................66
4.4 Solaris Guest Additions ........................... 67
4.4.1 Installing the Solaris Guest Additions ............... 67
4.4.2 Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions .............. 67
4.4.3 Updating the Solaris Guest Additions ............... 68
4.5 OS/2 Guest Additions ............................68
4.6 Folder sharing ................................ 68
4.7 Seamless windows .............................. 70
4.8 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and DirectX 8/9) .......... 71
4.9 Guest properties ...............................72
5 Virtual storage 75
5.1 Hard disk controllers: IDE,SATA (AHCI), SCSI ..............75
5.2 Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD) .................... 77
5.3 Configuring image write operations ....................78
5.4 Cloning disk images .............................80
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