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Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 manual available for free PDF download: User Manual
Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 User Manual (259 pages)
Sun Microsystems Computer Accessories User Manual
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Table of Contents
User Manual
1
Table of Contents
2
1 Introduction
9
Virtualization Basics
9
Software Vs. Hardware Virtualization (VT-X and AMD-V)
11
Features Overview
13
Supported Host Operating Systems
16
Supported Guest Operating Systems
17
64-Bit Guests
18
2 Installation
19
Installing on Windows Hosts
19
Prerequisites
19
Performing the Installation
19
Uninstallation
20
Unattended Installation
20
Installing on Mac os X Hosts
20
Performing the Installation
20
Uninstallation
21
Unattended Installation
21
Installing on Linux Hosts
21
Prerequisites
21
The Virtualbox Kernel Module
21
USB and Advanced Networking Support
23
Performing the Installation
23
Starting Virtualbox on Linux
28
Installing on Solaris Hosts
28
Performing the Installation
28
Starting Virtualbox on Solaris
29
Uninstallation
29
Unattended Installation
30
Configuring a Zone for Running Virtualbox
30
3 Starting out with Virtualbox
31
Starting the Graphical User Interface
31
Creating a Virtual Machine
32
Basics of Virtual Machine Configuration
36
Running a Virtual Machine
38
Keyboard and Mouse Support in Virtual Machines
39
Changing Removable Media
41
Saving the State of the Machine
41
Snapshots
42
The Virtual Disk Manager
43
Deleting Virtual Machines
45
Virtual Machine Settings
45
General Settings
46
System Settings
47
Display Settings
49
Hard Disk Settings
50
CD/DVD-ROM and Floppy Settings
51
Audio Settings
52
Network Settings
52
Serial Ports
53
USB Support
54
Shared Folders
56
Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines
56
4 Guest Additions
60
Introduction
60
Windows Guest Additions
61
Installing the Windows Guest Additions
62
Updating the Windows Guest Additions
63
Unattended Installation
63
Manual File Extraction
64
Windows Vista Networking
64
Linux Guest Additions
64
Installing the Linux Guest Additions
65
Video Acceleration and High Resolution Graphics Modes
66
Updating the Linux Guest Additions
66
Solaris Guest Additions
67
Installing the Solaris Guest Additions
67
Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions
67
Updating the Solaris Guest Additions
68
OS/2 Guest Additions
68
Folder Sharing
68
Seamless Windows
70
Hardware 3D Acceleration (Opengl and Directx 8/9)
71
Guest Properties
72
5 Virtual Storage
75
Hard Disk Controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI
75
Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD)
77
Configuring Image Write Operations
78
Cloning Disk Images
80
Iscsi Servers
80
Access Iscsi Targets Via Internal Networking
80
6 Virtual Networking
82
Virtual Networking Hardware
82
Introduction to Networking Modes
83
Not Attached" Mode
84
Network Address Translation (NAT)
84
Configuring Port Forwarding with NAT
84
PXE Booting with NAT
85
NAT Limitations
85
Bridged Networking
86
Internal Networking
88
Host-Only Networking
89
7 Alternative Front-Ends; Remote Virtual Machines
90
Introduction
90
Using Vboxmanage to Control Virtual Machines
91
Vboxsdl, the Simplified VM Displayer
92
Remote Virtual Machines (VRDP Support)
93
Vboxheadless, the VRDP-Only Server
94
Step by Step: Creating a Virtual Machine on a Headless Server
95
Remote USB
97
RDP Authentication
97
RDP Encryption
98
VRDP Multiple Connections
99
8 Vboxmanage Reference
100
Vboxmanage List
105
Vboxmanage Showvminfo
105
Vboxmanage Registervm / Unregistervm
106
Vboxmanage Createvm
107
Vboxmanage Modifyvm
107
General Settings
107
Storage Settings
109
Networking Settings
110
Serial Port, Audio, Clipboard, VRDP and USB Settings
111
Vboxmanage Import
112
Vboxmanage Export
113
Vboxmanage Startvm
114
Vboxmanage Controlvm
115
Vboxmanage Discardstate
116
Vboxmanage Snapshot
116
Vboxmanage Openmedium / Closemedium
116
Vboxmanage Showhdinfo
117
Vboxmanage Createhd
117
Vboxmanage Modifyhd
118
Vboxmanage Clonehd
118
Vboxmanage Convertfromraw
119
Vboxmanage Addiscsidisk
120
Vboxmanage Getextradata/Setextradata
121
Vboxmanage Setproperty
121
Vboxmanage Usbfilter Add/Modify/Remove
122
Vboxmanage Sharedfolder Add/Remove
122
Vboxmanage Metrics
122
Vboxmanage Guestproperty
124
Vboxmanage Dhcpserver
125
9 Advanced Topics
127
Virtualbox Configuration Data
127
Automated Windows Guest Logons (Vboxgina)
128
Custom External VRDP Authentication
129
Secure Labeling with Vboxsdl
131
Custom VESA Resolutions
132
Multiple Monitors for the Guest
133
Releasing Modifiers with Vboxsdl on Linux
133
Launching more than 120 Vms on Solaris Hosts
134
Using Serial Ports
134
Using a Raw Host Hard Disk from a Guest
135
Access to Entire Physical Hard Disk
135
Access to Individual Physical Hard Disk Partitions
136
Allowing a Virtual Machine to Start Even with Unavailable CD/DVD/Floppy Devices
138
Fine-Tuning the Virtualbox NAT Engine
138
Configuring the Address of a NAT Network Interface
138
Configuring the Boot Server (Next Server) of a NAT Network Interface
138
Tuning TCP/IP Buffers for NAT
139
Binding NAT Sockets to a SpecifiC Interface
139
Enabling DNS Proxy in NAT Mode
140
Configuring the Maximum Resolution of Guests When Using the Graphical Frontend
140
Configuring the BIOS DMI Information
140
Configuring the Guest Time Stamp Counter (TSC) to Reflect Guest Execution141
141
Configuring the Hard Disk Vendor Product Data (VPD)
142
10 Virtualbox Programming Interfaces
143
11 Troubleshooting
144
General
144
Collecting Debugging Information
144
Guest Shows IDE Errors for VDI on Slow Host File System
144
Responding to Guest IDE Flush Requests
145
Windows Guests
146
Windows Bluescreens after Changing VM Configuration
146
Windows 0X101 Bluescreens with SMP Enabled (IPI Timeout)
146
Windows 2000 Installation Failures
146
How to Record Bluescreen Information from Windows Guests
147
No Networking in Windows Vista Guests
147
Windows Guests May Cause a High CPU Load
147
Linux Guests
147
Linux Guests May Cause a High CPU Load
147
AMD Barcelona Cpus
148
Buggy Linux 2.6 Kernel Versions
148
Windows Hosts
148
Vboxsvc Out-Of-Process COM Server Issues
148
CD/DVD Changes Not Recognized
149
Sluggish Response When Using Microsoft RDP Client
149
Running an Iscsi Initiator and Target on a Single System
150
Linux Hosts
150
Linux Kernel Module Refuses to Load
150
Linux Host CD/DVD Drive Not Found
150
Linux Host CD/DVD Drive Not Found (Older Distributions)
151
Linux Host Floppy Not Found
151
Strange Guest IDE Error Messages When Writing to CD/DVD
151
Vboxsvc IPC Issues
152
USB Not Working
152
Pax/Grsec Kernels
153
Linux Kernel Vmalloc Pool Exhausted
153
Solaris Hosts
154
Cannot Start VM, Not Enough Contiguous Memory
154
VM Aborts with out of Memory Errors on Solaris 10 Hosts
154
12 Change Log
155
Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)
155
Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)
158
Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)
160
Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)
161
Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)
165
Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)
167
Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)
170
Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)
172
Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)
173
Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)
174
Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)
176
Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)
178
Version 1.6.6 (2008-08-26)
179
Version 1.6.4 (2008-07-30)
180
Version 1.6.2 (2008-05-28)
182
Version 1.6.0 (2008-04-30)
183
Version 1.5.6 (2008-02-19)
185
Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29)
187
Version 1.5.2 (2007-10-18)
189
Version 1.5.0 (2007-08-31)
191
Version 1.4.0 (2007-06-06)
194
Version 1.3.8 (2007-03-14)
197
Version 1.3.6 (2007-02-20)
198
Version 1.3.4 (2007-02-12)
199
Version 1.3.2 (2007-01-15)
200
Version 1.2.4 (2006-11-16)
201
Version 1.2.2 (2006-11-14)
201
Version 1.1.12 (2006-11-14)
202
Version 1.1.10 (2006-07-28)
203
Version 1.1.8 (2006-07-17)
203
Version 1.1.6 (2006-04-18)
204
Version 1.1.4 (2006-03-09)
204
Version 1.1.2 (2006-02-03)
205
Version 1.0.50 (2005-12-16)
207
Version 1.0.48 (2005-11-23)
207
Version 1.0.46 (2005-11-04)
208
Version 1.0.44 (2005-10-25)
208
Version 1.0.42 (2005-08-30)
209
Version 1.0.40 (2005-06-17)
210
Version 1.0.39 (2005-05-05)
211
Version 1.0.38 (2005-04-27)
211
Version 1.0.37 (2005-04-12)
212
13 Known Limitations
213
14 Third-Party Licenses
216
Materials
216
GNU General Public License (GPL)
218
Licenses
218
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
223
Mozilla Public License (MPL)
230
X Consortium License (X11)
237
Zlib License
237
Openssl License
238
Liblzf License
239
Slirp License
239
Libpng License
240
Lwip License
240
Libxslt Licenses
241
Libxml License
241
Gsoap Public License Version 1.3A
242
Chromium Licenses
249
Curl License
251
Dnsproxy License
252
15 Virtualbox Privacy Policy
253
Glossary
255
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