Oracle® VM VirtualBox
User Manual for Release 6.1
Copyright © 2004, 2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
April 2022
F22854-13
Table of Contents
- Preface
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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
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1.15 Integrating with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 1.15.1 Preparing for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Integration
- 1.15.2 Creating an API Signing Key Pair
- 1.15.3 Uploading the Public Key to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 1.15.4 Creating a Cloud Profile
- 1.15.5 Using the Cloud Profile Manager
- 1.15.6 Using Oracle VM VirtualBox With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 1.15.7 Exporting an Appliance to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 1.15.8 Importing an Instance from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 1.15.9 Creating New Cloud Instances from a Custom Image
- 1.15.10 Using VBoxManage Commands With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- 1.16 Global Settings
- 1.17 Alternative Front-Ends
- 1.18 Soft Keyboard
- 2 Installation Details
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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)
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4 Guest Additions
- 4.1 Introduction to Guest Additions
- 4.2 Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions
- 4.3 Shared Folders
- 4.4 Drag and Drop
- 4.5 Hardware-Accelerated Graphics
- 4.6 Seamless Windows
- 4.7 Guest Properties
- 4.8 Guest Control File Manager
- 4.9 Guest Control of Applications
- 4.10 Memory Overcommitment
- 4.11 Controlling Virtual Monitor Topology
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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
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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
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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 guestproperty
- 7.32 VBoxManage guestcontrol
- 7.33 VBoxManage metrics
- 7.34 VBoxManage natnetwork
- 7.35 VBoxManage hostonlyif
- 7.36 VBoxManage usbdevsource
- 7.37 VBoxManage unattended
- 7.38 VBoxManage snapshot
- 7.39 VBoxManage clonevm
- 7.40 VBoxManage sharedfolder
- 7.41 VBoxManage extpack
- 7.42 VBoxManage dhcpserver
- 7.43 VBoxManage debugvm
- 7.44 VBoxManage cloudprofile
- 7.45 VBoxManage cloud
- 7.46 vboximg-mount
- Glossary