• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
• 1 First Steps
  • 1.1 Why is Virtualization Useful?
  • 1.2 Some Terminology
  • 1.3 Features Overview
  • 1.4 Supported Host Operating Systems
    • 1.4.1 Host CPU Requirements
  • 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
    • 1.8.1 Starting a New VM for the First Time
    • 1.8.2 Capturing and Releasing Keyboard and Mouse
    • 1.8.3 Typing Special Characters
    • 1.8.4 Changing Removable Media
    • 1.8.5 Resizing the Machine's Window
    • 1.8.6 Saving the State of the Machine
  • 1.9 Using VM Groups
  • 1.10 Snapshots
    • 1.10.1 Taking, Restoring, and Deleting Snapshots
    • 1.10.2 Snapshot Contents
  • 1.11 Virtual Machine Configuration
  • 1.12 Removing and Moving Virtual Machines
  • 1.13 Cloning Virtual Machines
  • 1.14 Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines
    • 1.14.1 About the OVF Format
    • 1.14.2 Importing an Appliance in OVF Format
    • 1.14.3 Exporting an Appliance in OVF Format
  • 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
    • 1.18.1 Using the Soft Keyboard
    • 1.18.2 Creating a Custom Keyboard Layout
• 2 Installation Details
  • 2.1 Installing on Windows Hosts
    • 2.1.1 Prerequisites
    • 2.1.2 Performing the Installation
    • 2.1.3 Uninstallation
    • 2.1.4 Unattended Installation
    • 2.1.5 Public Properties
  • 2.2 Installing on Mac OS X Hosts
    • 2.2.1 Performing the Installation
    • 2.2.2 Uninstallation
    • 2.2.3 Unattended Installation
  • 2.3 Installing on Linux Hosts
    • 2.3.1 Prerequisites
    • 2.3.2 The Oracle VM VirtualBox Kernel Modules
    • 2.3.3 Performing the Installation
    • 2.3.4 The vboxusers Group
    • 2.3.5 Starting Oracle VM VirtualBox on Linux
  • 2.4 Installing on Oracle Solaris Hosts
    • 2.4.1 Performing the Installation
    • 2.4.2 The vboxuser Group
    • 2.4.3 Starting Oracle VM VirtualBox on Oracle Solaris
    • 2.4.4 Uninstallation
    • 2.4.5 Unattended Installation
    • 2.4.6 Configuring a Zone for Running Oracle VM VirtualBox
• 3 Configuring Virtual Machines
  • 3.1 Supported Guest Operating Systems
    • 3.1.1 Mac OS X Guests
    • 3.1.2 64-bit Guests
  • 3.2 Unattended Guest Installation
    • 3.2.1 An Example of Unattended Guest Installation
  • 3.3 Emulated Hardware
  • 3.4 General Settings
    • 3.4.1 Basic Tab
    • 3.4.2 Advanced Tab
    • 3.4.3 Description Tab
    • 3.4.4 Disk Encryption Tab
  • 3.5 System Settings
    • 3.5.1 Motherboard Tab
    • 3.5.2 Processor Tab
    • 3.5.3 Acceleration Tab
  • 3.6 Display Settings
    • 3.6.1 Screen Tab
    • 3.6.2 Remote Display Tab
    • 3.6.3 Recording Tab
  • 3.7 Storage Settings
  • 3.8 Audio Settings
  • 3.9 Network Settings
  • 3.10 Serial Ports
  • 3.11 USB Support
    • 3.11.1 USB Settings
    • 3.11.2 Implementation Notes for Windows and Linux Hosts
  • 3.12 Shared Folders
  • 3.13 User Interface
  • 3.14 Alternative Firmware (EFI)
    • 3.14.1 Video Modes in EFI
    • 3.14.2 Specifying Boot Arguments
• 4 Guest Additions
  • 4.1 Introduction to Guest Additions
  • 4.2 Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions
    • 4.2.1 Guest Additions for Windows
    • 4.2.2 Guest Additions for Linux
    • 4.2.3 Guest Additions for Oracle Solaris
    • 4.2.4 Guest Additions for OS/2
  • 4.3 Shared Folders
    • 4.3.1 Manual Mounting
    • 4.3.2 Automatic Mounting
  • 4.4 Drag and Drop
    • 4.4.1 Supported Formats
    • 4.4.2 Known Limitations
  • 4.5 Hardware-Accelerated Graphics
    • 4.5.1 Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9)
    • 4.5.2 Hardware 2D Video Acceleration for Windows Guests
  • 4.6 Seamless Windows
  • 4.7 Guest Properties
    • 4.7.1 Using Guest Properties to Wait on VM Events
  • 4.8 Guest Control File Manager
    • 4.8.1 Using the Guest Control File Manager
  • 4.9 Guest Control of Applications
  • 4.10 Memory Overcommitment
    • 4.10.1 Memory Ballooning
    • 4.10.2 Page Fusion
  • 4.11 Controlling Virtual Monitor Topology
    • 4.11.1 X11/Wayland Desktop Environments
• 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
    • 5.11.1 Viewing Detailed Information About a Virtual Disk Image
    • 5.11.2 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)
    • 6.3.1 Configuring Port Forwarding with NAT
    • 6.3.2 PXE Booting with NAT
    • 6.3.3 NAT Limitations
  • 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
    • 7.8.1 General Settings
    • 7.8.2 Networking Settings
    • 7.8.3 Miscellaneous Settings
    • 7.8.4 Recording Settings
    • 7.8.5 Remote Machine Settings
    • 7.8.6 Teleporting Settings
    • 7.8.7 Debugging Settings
    • 7.8.8 USB Card Reader Settings
    • 7.8.9 Autostarting VMs During Host System Boot
  • 7.9 VBoxManage movevm
  • 7.10 VBoxManage import
    • 7.10.1 Import from OVF
    • 7.10.2 Import from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • 7.11 VBoxManage export
    • 7.11.1 Export to OVF
    • 7.11.2 Export to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • 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
    • 7.37.1 Synopsis
    • 7.37.2 Description
  • 7.38 VBoxManage snapshot
    • 7.38.1 Synopsis
    • 7.38.2 Description
    • 7.38.3 Examples
  • 7.39 VBoxManage clonevm
    • 7.39.1 Synopsis
    • 7.39.2 Description
    • 7.39.3 Command Operand and Options
    • 7.39.4 Examples
    • 7.39.5 See Also
  • 7.40 VBoxManage sharedfolder
    • 7.40.1 Synopsis
    • 7.40.2 Description
    • 7.40.3 Examples
  • 7.41 VBoxManage extpack
    • 7.41.1 Synopsis
    • 7.41.2 Description
    • 7.41.3 Examples
  • 7.42 VBoxManage dhcpserver
    • 7.42.1 Synopsis
    • 7.42.2 Description
  • 7.43 VBoxManage debugvm
    • 7.43.1 Synopsis
    • 7.43.2 Description
  • 7.44 VBoxManage cloudprofile
    • 7.44.1 Synopsis
    • 7.44.2 Description
  • 7.45 VBoxManage cloud
    • 7.45.1 Synopsis
    • 7.45.2 Description
  • 7.46 VBoxManage signova
    • 7.46.1 Synopsis
    • 7.46.2 Description
  • 7.47 VBoxManage updatecheck
    • 7.47.1 Synopsis
    • 7.47.2 Description
  • 7.48 vboximg-mount
    • 7.48.1 Synopsis
    • 7.48.2 Description
    • 7.48.3 Examples
• Glossary