User Manual for Release 6.0
February 2020
E97727-04
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 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 Oracle VM VirtualBox and Extension Packs
- 1.6 Starting Oracle VM VirtualBox
- 1.7 Creating Your First Virtual Machine
- 1.8 Running Your Virtual Machine
- 1.9 Using VM Groups
- 1.10 Snapshots
- 1.11 Virtual Machine Configuration
- 1.12 Removing and Moving Virtual Machines
- 1.13 Cloning Virtual Machines
- 1.14 Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines
- 1.15 Global Settings
- 1.16 Alternative Front-Ends
- 1.17 Soft Keyboard
- 2 Installation Details
- 3 Configuring Virtual Machines
- 3.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems
- 3.2 Unattended Guest Installation
- 3.3 Emulated Hardware
- 3.4 General Settings
- 3.5 System Settings
- 3.6 Display Settings
- 3.7 Storage Settings
- 3.8 Audio Settings
- 3.9 Network Settings
- 3.10 Serial Ports
- 3.11 USB Support
- 3.12 Shared Folders
- 3.13 User Interface
- 3.14 Alternative Firmware (EFI)
- 4 Guest Additions
- 5 Virtual Storage
- 5.1 Hard Disk Controllers
- 5.2 Disk Image Files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD)
- 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager
- 5.4 Special Image Write Modes
- 5.5 Differencing Images
- 5.6 Cloning Disk Images
- 5.7 Host Input/Output Caching
- 5.8 Limiting Bandwidth for Disk Images
- 5.9 CD/DVD Support
- 5.10 iSCSI Servers
- 5.11 vboximg-mount: A Utility for FUSE Mounting a Virtual Disk Image
- 6 Virtual Networking
- 6.1 Virtual Networking Hardware
- 6.2 Introduction to Networking Modes
- 6.3 Network Address Translation (NAT)
- 6.4 Network Address Translation Service
- 6.5 Bridged Networking
- 6.6 Internal Networking
- 6.7 Host-Only Networking
- 6.8 UDP Tunnel Networking
- 6.9 VDE Networking
- 6.10 Limiting Bandwidth for Network Input/Output
- 6.11 Improving Network Performance
- 7 VBoxManage
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Commands Overview
- 7.3 General Options
- 7.4 VBoxManage list
- 7.5 VBoxManage showvminfo
- 7.6 VBoxManage registervm/unregistervm
- 7.7 VBoxManage createvm
- 7.8 VBoxManage modifyvm
- 7.9 VBoxManage movevm
- 7.10 VBoxManage import
- 7.11 VBoxManage export
- 7.12 VBoxManage startvm
- 7.13 VBoxManage controlvm
- 7.14 VBoxManage discardstate
- 7.15 VBoxManage adoptstate
- 7.16 VBoxManage closemedium
- 7.17 VBoxManage storageattach
- 7.18 VBoxManage storagectl
- 7.19 VBoxManage bandwidthctl
- 7.20 VBoxManage showmediuminfo
- 7.21 VBoxManage createmedium
- 7.22 VBoxManage modifymedium
- 7.23 VBoxManage clonemedium
- 7.24 VBoxManage mediumproperty
- 7.25 VBoxManage encryptmedium
- 7.26 VBoxManage checkmediumpwd
- 7.27 VBoxManage convertfromraw
- 7.28 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata
- 7.29 VBoxManage setproperty
- 7.30 VBoxManage usbfilter add/modify/remove
- 7.31 VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove
- 7.32 VBoxManage guestproperty
- 7.33 VBoxManage guestcontrol
- 7.34 VBoxManage metrics
- 7.35 VBoxManage natnetwork
- 7.36 VBoxManage hostonlyif
- 7.37 VBoxManage usbdevsource
- 7.38 VBoxManage unattended
- 7.39 VBoxManage snapshot
- 7.40 VBoxManage clonevm
- 7.41 VBoxManage extpack
- 7.42 VBoxManage dhcpserver
- 7.43 VBoxManage debugvm
- 7.44 VBoxManage cloudprofile
- 7.45 VBoxManage cloud list
- 7.46 VBoxManage cloud instance
- 7.47 VBoxManage cloud image
- Glossary