Sun VirtualBoxR
Contents
Configuring virtual machines
Virtual storage
Advanced topics 135
VirtualBox programming interfaces 154 Troubleshooting 155
Change log 167
VirtualBox privacy policy 277 Glossary 279
First steps
Why is virtualization useful?
Some terminology
Features overview
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Windows hosts
Supported host operating systems
Mac OS X hosts2
Installing and starting VirtualBox
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Creating your first virtual machine
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Keyboard and mouse support in virtual machines
Running your virtual machine
Capturing and releasing keyboard and mouse
Typing special characters
Changing removable media
Saving the state of the machine
You can take a snapshot
Snapshots
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Virtual machine configuration
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Importing and exporting virtual machines
Deleting virtual machines
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First steps
Installing on Windows hosts
Installation details
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
Supported guest operating systems
Configuring virtual machines
64-bit guests
Basic tab
General settings
Advanced tab
Description tab
System settings
Motherboard tab
Processor tab
Acceleration tab hardware vs. software virtualization
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Storage settings
Display settings
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Network settings
Audio settings
Serial ports
USB support
USB settings
VBoxManage list usbhost
Alternative firmware EFI
Shared folders
Implementation notes for Windows and Linux hosts
To switch back to using the BIOS, use
Introduction
Guest Additions
Versions
Windows Guest Additions
Installing the Windows Guest Additions
Mounting the Additions ISO file
Updating the Windows Guest Additions
Running the installer
Windows Vista networking
Manual file extraction
Linux Guest Additions
Installing the Linux Guest Additions
Video acceleration and high resolution graphics modes
Solaris Guest Additions
Installing the Solaris Guest Additions
Updating the Linux Guest Additions
OS/2 Guest Additions
Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions
Folder sharing
Updating the Solaris Guest Additions
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A Solaris guest, use the following command
Seamless windows
Hardware 3D acceleration OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9
Guest properties
Hardware 2D video acceleration for Windows guests
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Guest Additions
Hard disk controllers IDE, Sata AHCI, Scsi
Virtual storage
Virtual storage
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Disk image files VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD
Virtual Media Manager
Special image write modes
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Differencing images
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Cloning disk images
Writing CDs and DVDs using the host drive
ISCSI servers
Access iSCSI targets via Internal Networking
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Virtual networking hardware
Virtual networking
Introduction to networking modes
1 Configuring port forwarding with NAT
Network Address Translation NAT
NAT limitations
PXE booting with NAT
Bridged networking
Internal networking
Host-only networking
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Alternative front-ends remote virtual machines
Using VBoxManage to control virtual machines
VBoxSDL, the simplified VM displayer
Remote virtual machines Vrdp support
Common third-party RDP viewers
VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server
Step by step creating a virtual machine on a headless server
Remote USB
RDP authentication
Vrdp multiple connections
RDP encryption
VBoxManage reference
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VBoxManage list
Uuid
VBoxManage showvminfo
VBoxManage createvm
VBoxManage registervm / unregistervm
VBoxManage modifyvm
General settings
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Networking settings
Serial port, audio, clipboard, Vrdp and USB settings
VBoxManage import
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VBoxManage startvm
VBoxManage export
VBoxManage controlvm
VBoxManage snapshot
VBoxManage discardstate
VBoxManage storagectl / storageattach
VBoxManage openmedium / closemedium
VBoxManage storageattach
VBoxManage storagectl
VBoxManage createhd
VBoxManage showhdinfo
VBoxManage modifyhd
VBoxManage convertfromraw
VBoxManage clonehd
VBoxManage addiscsidisk
Which would return
VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata
VBoxManage usbfilter add/modify/remove
VBoxManage setproperty
VBoxManage metrics
VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove
VBoxManage guestproperty
VBoxManage dhcpserver
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VirtualBox configuration data
Advanced topics
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Automated Windows guest logons
Automated Windows system preparation
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
13.1 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
Using the host’s resolver as a DNS proxy in NAT mode
Enabling DNS proxy in NAT mode
15 Configuring the Bios DMI information
17 Configuring the hard disk vendor product data VPD
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VirtualBox programming interfaces
General
Troubleshooting
Collecting debugging information
Responding to guest IDE/SATA flush requests
Windows 2000 installation failures
Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled IPI timeout
Windows guests
Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration
No networking in Windows Vista guests
How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests
Windows guests may cause a high CPU load
Linux guests may cause a high CPU load
Linux and X11 guests
AMD Barcelona CPUs
Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions
Windows hosts
VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues
11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized
Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system
Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client
Linux kernel module refuses to load
Linux hosts
Linux host CD/DVD drive not found
Linux host CD/DVD drive not found older distributions
VBoxSVC IPC issues
Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD
Linux host floppy not found
USB not working
Cannot start VM, not enough contiguous memory
Solaris hosts
VM aborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts
Version 3.1.0 Beta 2
Change log
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Version 3.0.12
Version 3.0.10
Version 3.0.8
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Version 3.0.6
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Version 3.0.4
Version 3.0.2
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Version 3.0.0
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Version 2.2.4
Version 2.2.2
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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
Version 2.0.2
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Version 2.0.0
Version 1.6.6
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Version 1.6.4
Version 1.6.2
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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
Third-party licenses
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MIT License
Zlib license
Consortium License
OpenSSL license
Slirp license
Libpng license
Liblzf license
Libxml license
LwIP license
Libxslt licenses
Definitions
GSOAP Public License Version 1.3a
Source Code License
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Inability to Comply DUE to Statute or Regulation
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Limitation of Liability
Main license
Chromium licenses
COPYRIGHT.LLNL file
COPYRIGHT.REDHAT file
Copyright and Permission Notice
Curl license
VirtualBox privacy policy
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Glossary
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