Table of Contents
Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual
Table of Contents pages: 1 2 3
- 1 First steps 1111
- 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? 1212
- 1.2 Some terminology 1212
- 1.3 Features overview 1313
- 1.4 Supported host operating systems 1515
- 1.5 Installing VirtualBox and extension packs 1616
- 1.6 Starting VirtualBox 1717
- 1.7 Creating your first virtual machine 1818
- 1.8 Running your virtual machine 2121
- 1.9 Using VM groups 2626
- 1.10 Snapshots 2626
- 1.11 Virtual machine configuration 2929
- 1.12 Removing virtual machines 3030
- 1.13 Cloning virtual machines 3030
- 1.14 Importing and exporting virtual machines 3131
- 1.15 Global Settings 3232
- 1.16 Alternative front-ends 3232
- 2 Installation details 3434
- 3 Configuring virtual machines 4545
- 3.1 Supported guest operating systems 4545
- 3.2 Emulated hardware 4747
- 3.3 General settings 4848
- 3.4 System settings 4949
- 3.5 Display settings 5151
- 3.6 Storage settings 5252
- 3.7 Audio settings 5454
- 3.8 Network settings 5555
- 3.9 Serial ports 5555
- 3.10 USB support 5656
- 3.11 Shared folders 5858
- 3.12 User Interface 5858
- 3.13 Alternative firmware (EFI) 5959
- 4 Guest Additions 6060
- 5 Virtual storage 7979
- 5.1 Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, SAS, USB MSD, NVMe 7979
- 5.2 Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD) 8282
- 5.3 The Virtual Media Manager 8383
- 5.4 Special image write modes 8484
- 5.5 Differencing images 8686
- 5.6 Cloning disk images 8888
- 5.7 Host I/O caching 8989
- 5.8 Limiting bandwidth for disk images 8989
- 5.9 CD/DVD support 9090
- 5.10 iSCSI servers 9191
- 6 Virtual networking 9292
- 6.1 Virtual networking hardware 9292
- 6.2 Introduction to networking modes 9393
- 6.3 Network Address Translation (NAT) 9494
- 6.4 Network Address Translation Service 9696
- 6.5 Bridged networking 9797
- 6.6 Internal networking 9898
- 6.7 Host-only networking 9999
- 6.8 UDP Tunnel networking 100100
- 6.9 VDE networking 101101
- 6.10 Limiting bandwidth for network I/O 101101
- 6.11 Improving network performance 102102
- 7 Remote virtual machines 104104
- 7.1 Remote display (VRDP support) 104104
- 7.1.1 Common third-party RDP viewers 104104
- 7.1.2 VBoxHeadless, the remote desktop server 105105
- 7.1.3 Step by step: creating a virtual machine on a headless server 106106
- 7.1.4 Remote USB 108108
- 7.1.5 RDP authentication 108108
- 7.1.6 RDP encryption 109109
- 7.1.7 Multiple connections to the VRDP server 110110
- 7.1.8 Multiple remote monitors 111111
- 7.1.9 VRDP video redirection 111111
- 7.1.10 VRDP customization 111111
- 7.2 Teleporting 112112
- 8 VBoxManage 114114
- 8.1 Introduction 114114
- 8.2 Commands overview 115115
- 8.3 General options 125125
- 8.4 VBoxManage list 125125
- 8.5 VBoxManage showvminfo 126126
- 8.6 VBoxManage registervm / unregistervm 127127
- 8.7 VBoxManage createvm 127127
- 8.8 VBoxManage modifyvm 128128
- 8.8.1 General settings 128128
- 8.8.2 Networking settings 131131
- 8.8.3 Miscellaneous settings 134134
- 8.8.4 Video Capture settings 135135
- 8.8.5 Remote machine settings 136136
- 8.8.6 Teleporting settings 139139
- 8.8.7 Debugging settings 139139
- 8.8.8 USB card reader settings 139139
- 8.8.9 Auto starting VMs during host system boot 140140
- 8.9 VBoxManage clonevm 140140
- 8.10 VBoxManage import 141141
- 8.11 VBoxManage export 142142
- 8.12 VBoxManage startvm 142142
- 8.13 VBoxManage controlvm 143143
- 8.14 VBoxManage discardstate 149149
- 8.15 VBoxManage adoptstate 149149
- 8.16 VBoxManage snapshot 149149
- 8.17 VBoxManage closemedium 150150
- 8.18 VBoxManage storageattach 150150
- 8.19 VBoxManage storagectl 154154
- 8.20 VBoxManage bandwidthctl 154154
- 8.21 VBoxManage showmediuminfo 155155
- 8.22 VBoxManage createhd 155155
- 8.23 VBoxManage modifymedium 156156
- 8.24 VBoxManage clonemedium 157157
- 8.25 VBoxManage mediumproperty 158158
- 8.26 VBoxManage encryptmedium 159159
- 8.27 VBoxManage checkmediumpwd 159159
- 8.28 VBoxManage convertfromraw 160160
- 8.29 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata 160160
- 8.30 VBoxManage setproperty 161161
- 8.31 VBoxManage usbfilter add/modify/remove 161161
- 8.32 VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove 163163
- 8.33 VBoxManage guestproperty 164164
- 8.34 VBoxManage guestcontrol 165165
- 8.35 VBoxManage metrics 172172
- 8.36 VBoxManage natnetwork 174174
- 8.37 VBoxManage hostonlyif 176176
- 8.38 VBoxManage dhcpserver 176176
- 8.39 VBoxManage usbdevsource 177177
- 8.40 VBoxManage debugvm 177177
- 8.41 VBoxManage extpack 183183
- 9 Advanced topics 185185