Administrator's Guide for Release 6.0
February 2020
F12469-04
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Remote Virtual Machines
- 1.1 Remote Display (VRDP Support)
- 1.1.1 Common Third-Party RDP Viewers
- 1.1.2 VBoxHeadless, the Remote Desktop Server
- 1.1.3 Step by Step: Creating a Virtual Machine on a Headless Server
- 1.1.4 Remote USB
- 1.1.5 RDP Authentication
- 1.1.6 RDP Encryption
- 1.1.7 Multiple Connections to the VRDP Server
- 1.1.8 Multiple Remote Monitors
- 1.1.9 VRDP Video Redirection
- 1.1.10 VRDP Customization
- 1.2 Teleporting
- 2 Advanced Topics
- 2.1 Automated Guest Logins
- 2.2 Advanced Configuration for Windows Guests
- 2.3 Advanced Configuration for Linux and Oracle Solaris Guests
- 2.4 CPU Hot-Plugging
- 2.5 PCI Passthrough
- 2.6 Webcam Passthrough
- 2.7 Advanced Display Configuration
- 2.8 Advanced Storage Configuration
- 2.9 Fine Tuning the Oracle VM VirtualBox NAT Engine
- 2.9.1 Configuring the Address of a NAT Network Interface
- 2.9.2 Configuring the Boot Server (Next Server) of a NAT Network Interface
- 2.9.3 Tuning TCP/IP Buffers for NAT
- 2.9.4 Binding NAT Sockets to a Specific Interface
- 2.9.5 Enabling DNS Proxy in NAT Mode
- 2.9.6 Using the Host's Resolver as a DNS Proxy in NAT Mode
- 2.9.7 Configuring Aliasing of the NAT Engine
- 2.10 Configuring the BIOS DMI Information
- 2.11 Configuring Custom ACPI Tables
- 2.12 Fine Tuning Timers and Time Synchronization
- 2.13 Installing the Alternate Bridged Networking Driver on Oracle Solaris 11 Hosts
- 2.14 Oracle VM VirtualBox VNIC Templates for VLANs on Oracle Solaris 11 Hosts
- 2.15 Configuring Multiple Host-Only Network Interfaces on Oracle Solaris Hosts
- 2.16 Configuring the Oracle VM VirtualBox CoreDumper on Oracle Solaris Hosts
- 2.17 Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones
- 2.18 Locking Down the Oracle VM VirtualBox GUI
- 2.18.1 Customizing the VirtualBox Manager
- 2.18.2 VM Selector Customization
- 2.18.3 Configure VM Selector Menu Entries
- 2.18.4 Configure VM Window Menu Entries
- 2.18.5 Configure VM Window Status Bar Entries
- 2.18.6 Configure VM Window Visual Modes
- 2.18.7 Host Key Customization
- 2.18.8 Action when Terminating the VM
- 2.18.9 Default Action when Terminating the VM
- 2.18.10 Action for Handling a Guru Meditation
- 2.18.11 Configuring Automatic Mouse Capturing
- 2.18.12 Requesting Legacy Full-Screen Mode
- 2.18.13 Removing Certain Modes of Networking From the GUI
- 2.19 Starting the Oracle VM VirtualBox Web Service Automatically
- 2.20 Oracle VM VirtualBox Watchdog
- 2.21 Other Extension Packs
- 2.22 Starting Virtual Machines During System Boot
- 2.23 Oracle VM VirtualBox Expert Storage Management
- 2.24 Handling of Host Power Management Events
- 2.25 Passing Through SSE4.1/SSE4.2 Instructions
- 2.26 Support for Keyboard Indicator Synchronization
- 2.27 Capturing USB Traffic for Selected Devices
- 2.28 Configuring the Heartbeat Service
- 2.29 Encryption of Disk Images
- 2.30 Paravirtualized Debugging
- 2.31 PC Speaker Passthrough
- 2.32 Accessing USB devices Exposed Over the Network with USB/IP
- 2.33 Using Hyper-V with Oracle VM VirtualBox
- 2.34 Nested Virtualization
- 2.35 VISO file format / RTIsoMaker
- 3 Technical Background
- 4 Oracle VM VirtualBox Programming Interfaces
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 5.1 Procedures and Tools
- 5.2 General Troubleshooting
- 5.2.1 Guest Shows IDE/SATA Errors for File-Based Images on Slow Host File System
- 5.2.2 Responding to Guest IDE/SATA Flush Requests
- 5.2.3 Performance Variation with Frequency Boosting
- 5.2.4 Frequency Scaling Effect on CPU Usage
- 5.2.5 Inaccurate Windows CPU Usage Reporting
- 5.2.6 Poor Performance Caused by Host Power Management
- 5.2.7 GUI: 2D Video Acceleration Option is Grayed Out
- 5.3 Windows Guests
- 5.3.1 No USB 3.0 Support in Windows 7 Guests
- 5.3.2 Windows Bluescreens After Changing VM Configuration
- 5.3.3 Windows 0x101 Bluescreens with SMP Enabled (IPI Timeout)
- 5.3.4 Windows 2000 Installation Failures
- 5.3.5 How to Record Bluescreen Information from Windows Guests
- 5.3.6 No Networking in Windows Vista Guests
- 5.3.7 Windows Guests may Cause a High CPU Load
- 5.3.8 Long Delays When Accessing Shared Folders
- 5.3.9 USB Tablet Coordinates Wrong in Windows 98 Guests
- 5.3.10 Windows Guests are Removed From an Active Directory Domain After Restoring a Snapshot
- 5.3.11 Windows 3.x Limited to 64 MB RAM
- 5.4 Linux and X11 Guests
- 5.5 Oracle Solaris Guests
- 5.6 Windows Hosts
- 5.7 Linux Hosts
- 5.7.1 Linux Kernel Module Refuses to Load
- 5.7.2 Linux Host CD or DVD Drive Not Found
- 5.7.3 Linux Host CD or DVD Drive Not Found (Older Distributions)
- 5.7.4 Linux Host Floppy Not Found
- 5.7.5 Strange Guest IDE Error Messages When Writing to CD or DVD
- 5.7.6 VBoxSVC IPC Issues
- 5.7.7 USB Not Working
- 5.7.8 PAX/grsec Kernels
- 5.7.9 Linux Kernel vmalloc Pool Exhausted
- 5.8 Oracle Solaris Hosts
- 6 Security Guide
- 7 Known Limitations
- A Third-Party Materials and Licenses
- A.1 Third-Party Materials
- A.2 Third-Party Licenses
- A.2.1 GNU General Public License (GPL)
- A.2.2 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
- A.2.3 Mozilla Public License (MPL)
- A.2.4 MIT License
- A.2.5 X Consortium License (X11)
- A.2.6 zlib License
- A.2.7 OpenSSL License
- A.2.8 Slirp License
- A.2.9 liblzf License
- A.2.10 libpng License
- A.2.11 lwIP License
- A.2.12 libxml License
- A.2.13 libxslt Licenses
- A.2.14 gSOAP Public License Version 1.3a
- A.2.15 Chromium Licenses
- A.2.16 curl License
- A.2.17 libgd License
- A.2.18 BSD License from Intel
- A.2.19 libjpeg License
- A.2.20 x86 SIMD Extension for IJG JPEG Library License
- A.2.21 FreeBSD License
- A.2.22 NetBSD License
- A.2.23 PCRE License
- A.2.24 libffi License
- A.2.25 FLTK License
- A.2.26 Expat License
- A.2.27 Fontconfig License
- A.2.28 Freetype License
- A.2.29 VPX License
- A.2.30 Opus License
- A.2.31 FUSE for macOS License
- B Oracle VM VirtualBox Privacy Information