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 Vista networking

. . . . . 64

 

4.3

Linux Guest Additions

. . . . . 64

 

 

4.3.1

Installing the Linux Guest Additions

. . . . . 65

 

 

4.3.2

Video acceleration 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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