Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- 1 First steps
- 1.1 Why is virtualization useful?
- 1.2 Some terminology
- 1.3 Features overview
- 1.4 Supported host operating systems
- 1.5 Installing and starting VirtualBox
- 1.6 Creating your first virtual machine
- 1.7 Running your virtual machine
- 1.8 Snapshots
- 1.9 Virtual machine configuration
- 1.10 Deleting virtual machines
- 1.11 Importing and exporting virtual machines
- 2 Installation details
- 3 Configuring virtual machines
- 4 Guest Additions
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Versions
- 4.3 Windows Guest Additions
- 4.4 Linux Guest Additions
- 4.5 Solaris Guest Additions
- 4.6 OS/2 Guest Additions
- 4.7 Folder sharing
- 4.8 Seamless windows
- 4.9 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9)
- 4.10 Hardware 2D video acceleration for Windows guests
- 4.11 Guest properties
- 5 Virtual storage
- 6 Virtual networking
- 7 Alternative front-ends; remote virtual machines
- 8 VBoxManage reference
- 8.1 VBoxManage list
- 8.2 VBoxManage showvminfo
- 8.3 VBoxManage registervm / unregistervm
- 8.4 VBoxManage createvm
- 8.5 VBoxManage modifyvm
- 8.6 VBoxManage import
- 8.7 VBoxManage export
- 8.8 VBoxManage startvm
- 8.9 VBoxManage controlvm
- 8.10 VBoxManage discardstate
- 8.11 VBoxManage snapshot
- 8.12 VBoxManage openmedium / closemedium
- 8.13 VBoxManage storagectl / storageattach
- 8.14 VBoxManage showhdinfo
- 8.15 VBoxManage createhd
- 8.16 VBoxManage modifyhd
- 8.17 VBoxManage clonehd
- 8.18 VBoxManage convertfromraw
- 8.19 VBoxManage addiscsidisk
- 8.20 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata
- 8.21 VBoxManage setproperty
- 8.22 VBoxManage usbfilter add/modify/remove
- 8.23 VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove
- 8.24 VBoxManage metrics
- 8.25 VBoxManage guestproperty
- 8.26 VBoxManage dhcpserver
- 9 Advanced topics
- 9.1 VirtualBox configuration data
- 9.2 Automated Windows guest logons
- 9.3 Automated Windows system preparation
- 9.4 Custom external VRDP authentication
- 9.5 Secure labeling with VBoxSDL
- 9.6 Custom VESA resolutions
- 9.7 Multiple monitors for the guest
- 9.8 Releasing modifiers with VBoxSDL on Linux
- 9.9 Launching more than 120 VMs on Solaris hosts
- 9.10 Using serial ports
- 9.11 Using a raw host hard disk from a guest
- 9.12 Allowing a virtual machine to start even with unavailable CD/DVD/floppy devices
- 9.13 Fine-tuning the VirtualBox NAT engine
- 9.13.1 Configuring the address of a NAT network interface
- 9.13.2 Configuring the boot server (next server) of a NAT network interface
- 9.13.3 Tuning TCP/IP buffers for NAT
- 9.13.4 Binding NAT sockets to a specific interface
- 9.13.5 Enabling DNS proxy in NAT mode
- 9.13.6 Using the host's resolver as a DNS proxy in NAT mode
- 9.14 Configuring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphical frontend
- 9.15 Configuring the BIOS DMI information
- 9.16 Configuring the guest time stamp counter (TSC) to reflect guest execution
- 9.17 Configuring the hard disk vendor product data (VPD)
- 10 VirtualBox programming interfaces
- 11 Troubleshooting
- 11.1 General
- 11.2 Windows guests
- 11.2.1 Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration
- 11.2.2 Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout)
- 11.2.3 Windows 2000 installation failures
- 11.2.4 How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests
- 11.2.5 No networking in Windows Vista guests
- 11.2.6 Windows guests may cause a high CPU load
- 11.3 Linux and X11 guests
- 11.4 Windows hosts
- 11.5 Linux hosts
- 11.5.1 Linux kernel module refuses to load
- 11.5.2 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found
- 11.5.3 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found (older distributions)
- 11.5.4 Linux host floppy not found
- 11.5.5 Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD
- 11.5.6 VBoxSVC IPC issues
- 11.5.7 USB not working
- 11.5.8 PAX/grsec kernels
- 11.5.9 Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted
- 11.6 Solaris hosts
- 12 Change log
- 12.1 Version 3.1.0 Beta 2 (2009-11-19)
- 12.2 Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)
- 12.3 Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)
- 12.4 Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)
- 12.5 Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)
- 12.6 Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)
- 12.7 Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)
- 12.8 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)
- 12.9 Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)
- 12.10 Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)
- 12.11 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)
- 12.12 Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)
- 12.13 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)
- 12.14 Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)
- 12.15 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)
- 12.16 Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)
- 12.17 Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)
- 12.18 Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)
- 12.19 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)
- 12.20 Version 1.6.6 (2008-08-26)
- 12.21 Version 1.6.4 (2008-07-30)
- 12.22 Version 1.6.2 (2008-05-28)
- 12.23 Version 1.6.0 (2008-04-30)
- 12.24 Version 1.5.6 (2008-02-19)
- 12.25 Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29)
- 12.26 Version 1.5.2 (2007-10-18)
- 12.27 Version 1.5.0 (2007-08-31)
- 12.28 Version 1.4.0 (2007-06-06)
- 12.29 Version 1.3.8 (2007-03-14)
- 12.30 Version 1.3.6 (2007-02-20)
- 12.31 Version 1.3.4 (2007-02-12)
- 12.32 Version 1.3.2 (2007-01-15)
- 12.33 Version 1.2.4 (2006-11-16)
- 12.34 Version 1.2.2 (2006-11-14)
- 12.35 Version 1.1.12 (2006-11-14)
- 12.36 Version 1.1.10 (2006-07-28)
- 12.37 Version 1.1.8 (2006-07-17)
- 12.38 Version 1.1.6 (2006-04-18)
- 12.39 Version 1.1.4 (2006-03-09)
- 12.40 Version 1.1.2 (2006-02-03)
- 12.41 Version 1.0.50 (2005-12-16)
- 12.42 Version 1.0.48 (2005-11-23)
- 12.43 Version 1.0.46 (2005-11-04)
- 12.44 Version 1.0.44 (2005-10-25)
- 12.45 Version 1.0.42 (2005-08-30)
- 12.46 Version 1.0.40 (2005-06-17)
- 12.47 Version 1.0.39 (2005-05-05)
- 12.48 Version 1.0.38 (2005-04-27)
- 12.49 Version 1.0.37 (2005-04-12)
- 13 Known limitations
- 14 Third-party licenses
- 14.1 Materials
- 14.2 Licenses
- 14.2.1 GNU General Public License (GPL)
- 14.2.2 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
- 14.2.3 Mozilla Public License (MPL)
- 14.2.4 MIT License
- 14.2.5 X Consortium License (X11)
- 14.2.6 zlib license
- 14.2.7 OpenSSL license
- 14.2.8 Slirp license
- 14.2.9 liblzf license
- 14.2.10 libpng license
- 14.2.11 lwIP license
- 14.2.12 libxml license
- 14.2.13 libxslt licenses
- 14.2.14 gSOAP Public License Version 1.3a
- 14.2.15 Chromium licenses
- 14.2.16 curl license
- 15 VirtualBox privacy policy
- Glossary