The Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions are software packages which can be installed inside of supported guest systems to improve their performance and to provide additional integration and communication with the host system. After installing the Guest Additions, a virtual machine will support automatic adjustment of video resolutions, seamless windows, accelerated 3D graphics and more.
In particular, Guest Additions provide for shared folders , which let you access files on the host system from within a guest machine. See Section 4. Great hardware support. Guest multiprocessing SMP. USB device support. Oracle VM VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and enables you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device-specific drivers on the host.
USB support is not limited to certain device categories. Hardware compatibility. Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualizes a vast array of virtual devices, among them many devices that are typically provided by other virtualization platforms.
This enables easy cloning of disk images from real machines and importing of third-party virtual machines into Oracle VM VirtualBox. Full ACPI support. This enables easy cloning of disk images from real machines or third-party virtual machines into Oracle VM VirtualBox.
For mobile systems running on battery, the guest can thus enable energy saving and notify the user of the remaining power, for example in full screen modes. Multiscreen resolutions. Oracle VM VirtualBox virtual machines support screen resolutions many times that of a physical screen, allowing them to be spread over a large number of screens attached to the host system.
Built-in iSCSI support. This unique feature enables you to connect a virtual machine directly to an iSCSI storage server without going through the host system.
The VM accesses the iSCSI target directly without the extra overhead that is required for virtualizing hard disks in container files. See Section 5. PXE Network boot. Multigeneration branched snapshots. Oracle VM VirtualBox can save arbitrary snapshots of the state of the virtual machine. You can go back in time and revert the virtual machine to any such snapshot and start an alternative VM configuration from there, effectively creating a whole snapshot tree.
You can create and delete snapshots while the virtual machine is running. VM groups. Oracle VM VirtualBox provides a groups feature that enables the user to organize and control virtual machines collectively, as well as individually. In addition to basic groups, it is also possible for any VM to be in more than one group, and for groups to be nested in a hierarchy.
This means you can have groups of groups. Clean architecture and unprecedented modularity. Oracle VM VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a clean separation of client and server code. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once. For example, you can start a VM simply by clicking on a button in the Oracle VM VirtualBox graphical user interface and then control that machine from the command line, or even remotely.
Due to its modular architecture, Oracle VM VirtualBox can also expose its full functionality and configurability through a comprehensive software development kit SDK , which enables integration of Oracle VM VirtualBox with other software systems. Remote machine display. Instead, the VRDE is plugged directly into the virtualization layer. As a result, it works with guest OSes other than Windows, even in text mode, and does not require application support in the virtual machine either.
Extensible RDP authentication. In addition, it includes an easy-to-use SDK which enables you to create arbitrary interfaces for other methods of authentication. See Section 7. Intel hardware is required. See also Chapter 14, Known Limitations. Linux hosts bit. Includes the following:. See Section 2. However, the formally tested and supported Linux distributions are those for which we offer a dedicated package.
Oracle Solaris hosts bit only. The following versions are supported with the restrictions listed in Chapter 14, Known Limitations :. Note that any feature which is marked as experimental is not supported. Feedback and suggestions about such features are welcome. If you have installed software before, installation should be straightforward. On each host platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox uses the installation method that is most common and easy to use.
If you run into trouble or have special requirements, see Chapter 2, Installation Details for details about the various installation methods. Base package. Extension packs. Additional extension packs can be downloaded which extend the functionality of the Oracle VM VirtualBox base package.
The extension pack provides the following added functionality:. The virtual USB 2. The virtual USB 3. Host webcam passthrough. See Section 9. Disk image encryption with AES algorithm. Cloud integration features. Oracle VM VirtualBox extension packages have a. To install an extension, simply double-click on the package file and a Network Operations Manager window is shown to guide you through the required steps. To view the extension packs that are currently installed, start the VirtualBox Manager, as shown in Section 1.
From the File menu, select Preferences. In the window that displays, go to the Extensions category. This shows you the extensions which are currently installed, and enables you to remove a package or add a new package. Alternatively, you can use the VBoxManage command line. See Section 8. On a Windows host, in the Programs menu, click on the item in the VirtualBox group. On some Windows platforms, you can also enter VirtualBox in the search box of the Start menu. You may want to drag this item onto your Dock.
Alternatively, you can enter VirtualBox in a terminal window. This window is called the VirtualBox Manager. The left pane will later list all your virtual machines. Since you have not yet created any virtual machines, this list is empty.
The Tools button provides access to user tools, such as the Virtual Media Manager. The pane on the right displays the properties of the currently selected virtual machine. Since you do not have any machines yet, the pane displays a welcome message. Click New in the VirtualBox Manager window. A wizard is shown, to guide you through setting up a new virtual machine VM. On the following pages, the wizard will ask you for the bare minimum of information that is needed to create a VM, in particular:.
For example, Windows 10 with Visio. The Machine Folder is the location where VMs are stored on your computer. The default folder location is shown. The supported OSes are grouped. If you want to install something very unusual that is not listed, select Other.
This is particularly important for bit guests. It is therefore recommended to always set it to the correct value. The amount of memory given here will be taken away from your host machine and presented to the guest OS, which will report this size as the virtual computer's installed RAM.
Choose this setting carefully. The memory you give to the VM will not be available to your host OS while the VM is running, so do not specify more than you can spare. If you run two VMs at the same time, even more memory will be allocated for the second VM, which may not even be able to start if that memory is not available. On the other hand, you should specify as much as your guest OS and your applications will require to run properly. A guest OS may require at least 1 or 2 GB of memory to install and boot up.
For best performance, more memory than that may be required. If insufficient RAM remains, the system might excessively swap memory to the hard disk, which effectively brings the host system to a standstill. As with the other settings, you can change this setting later, after you have created the VM.
There are many and potentially complicated ways in which Oracle VM VirtualBox can provide hard disk space to a VM, see Chapter 5, Virtual Storage , but the most common way is to use a large image file on your physical hard disk, whose contents Oracle VM VirtualBox presents to your VM as if it were a complete hard disk.
This file then represents an entire hard disk, so you can even copy it to another host and use it with another Oracle VM VirtualBox installation. To create a new, empty virtual hard disk, click the Create button. You can pick an existing disk image file.
The drop-down list presented in the window lists all disk images which are currently remembered by Oracle VM VirtualBox. These disk images are currently attached to a virtual machine, or have been attached to a virtual machine.
Alternatively, click on the small folder icon next to the drop-down list. In the displayed file dialog, you can click Add to select any disk image file on your host disk.
Click the Create button. This wizard helps you to create a new disk image file in the new virtual machine's folder. A dynamically allocated file only grows in size when the guest actually stores data on its virtual hard disk.
Therefore, this file is small initially. As the drive is filled with data, the file grows to the specified size. A fixed-size file immediately occupies the file specified, even if only a fraction of that virtual hard disk space is actually in use. While occupying much more space, a fixed-size file incurs less overhead and is therefore slightly faster than a dynamically allocated file. For details about the differences, see Section 5.
But the image file must be large enough to hold the contents of the guest OS and the applications you want to install. For a Windows or Linux guest, you will probably need several gigabytes for any serious use. The limit of the image file size can be changed later, see Section 8. After having selected or created your image file, click Next to go to the next page. Click Create , to create your new virtual machine. The virtual machine is displayed in the list on the left side of the VirtualBox Manager window, with the name that you entered initially.
After becoming familiar with the use of wizards, consider using the Expert Mode available in some wizards. Where available, this is selectable using a button, and speeds up the process of using wizards. Go to the VirtualBox VMs folder in your system user's home directory. Find the subdirectory of the machine you want to start and double-click on the machine settings file. This file has a. Starting a virtual machine displays a new window, and the virtual machine which you selected will boot up.
Everything which would normally be seen on the virtual system's monitor is shown in the window. See the screenshot image in Chapter 1, First Steps. In general, you can use the virtual machine as you would use a real computer.
There are couple of points worth mentioning however. This wizard helps you to select an installation medium. Since the VM is created empty, it would otherwise behave just like a real computer with no OS installed.
It will do nothing and display an error message that no bootable OS was found. In the wizard's drop-down list of installation media, select Host Drive with the correct drive letter. In the case of a Linux host, choose a device file. This will allow your VM to access the media in your host drive, and you can proceed to install from there.
If you have downloaded installation media from the Internet in the form of an ISO image file such as with a Linux distribution, you would normally burn this file to an empty CD or DVD and proceed as described above.
In this case, the wizard's drop-down list contains a list of installation media that were previously used with Oracle VM VirtualBox. If your medium is not in the list, especially if you are using Oracle VM VirtualBox for the first time, click the small folder icon next to the drop-down list to display a standard file dialog. Here you can pick an image file on your host disks. After completing the choices in the wizard, you will be able to install your OS.
If you are running a modern guest OS that can handle such devices, mouse support may work out of the box without the mouse being captured as described below. But unless you are running the VM in full screen mode, your VM needs to share keyboard and mouse with other applications and possibly other VMs on your host. After installing a guest OS and before you install the Guest Additions, described later, either your VM or the rest of your computer can "own" the keyboard and the mouse.
Both cannot own the keyboard and mouse at the same time. You will see a second mouse pointer which is always confined to the limits of the VM window. You activate the VM by clicking inside it. By default, this is the right Ctrl key on your keyboard. On a Mac host, the default Host key is the left Command key. The current setting for the Host key is always displayed at the bottom right of your VM window. Your keyboard is owned by the VM if the VM window on your host desktop has the keyboard focus.
If you have many windows open in your guest OS, the window that has the focus in your VM is used. This means that if you want to enter text within your VM, click on the title bar of your VM window first. To release keyboard ownership, press the Host key. As explained above, this is typically the right Ctrl key. For technical reasons it may not be possible for the VM to get all keyboard input even when it does own the keyboard. Your mouse is owned by the VM only after you have clicked in the VM window.
The host mouse pointer will disappear, and your mouse will drive the guest's pointer instead of your normal mouse pointer. Note that mouse ownership is independent of that of the keyboard. Even after you have clicked on a titlebar to be able to enter text into the VM window, your mouse is not necessarily owned by the VM yet. These tools make VM keyboard and mouse operations much more seamless. Most importantly, the Guest Additions suppress the second "guest" mouse pointer and make your host mouse pointer work directly in the guest.
Some OSes expect certain key combinations to initiate certain procedures. The recipient of these keypresses depends on a number of factors, including the key combination itself.
Host OSes reserve certain key combinations for themselves. As the X server intercepts this combination, pressing it will usually restart your host graphical user interface and kill all running programs, including Oracle VM VirtualBox, in the process.
If, instead, you want to send these key combinations to the guest OS in the virtual machine, you will need to use one of the following methods:. Use the items in the Input , Keyboard menu of the virtual machine window. However, the latter setting affects only Linux guests or Oracle Solaris guests.
This menu also includes an option for inserting the Host key combination. Use special key combinations with the Host key, which is normally the right Control key. This is a global setting for all virtual machines and can be found under File , Preferences , Input. A soft keyboard can be used to input key combinations in the guest.
While a virtual machine is running, you can change removable media in the Devices menu of the VM's window. But as the Settings dialog is disabled while the VM is in the Running or Saved state, the Devices menu saves you from having to shut down and restart the VM every time you want to change media. Using the Devices menu, you can attach the host drive to the guest or select a floppy or DVD image, as described in Section 3. You can resize the VM's window while that VM is running.
When you do, the window is scaled as follows:. If you have scaled mode enabled, then the virtual machine's screen will be scaled to the size of the window. This can be useful if you have many machines running and want to have a look at one of them while it is running in the background.
Alternatively, it might be useful to enlarge a window if the VM's output screen is very small, for example because you are running an old OS in it.
The aspect ratio of the guest screen is preserved when resizing the window. To ignore the aspect ratio, press Shift during the resize operation. See Chapter 14, Known Limitations for additional remarks. If you have the Guest Additions installed and they support automatic resizing , the Guest Additions will automatically adjust the screen resolution of the guest OS.
For example, if you are running a Windows guest with a resolution of x pixels and you then resize the VM window to make it pixels wider, the Guest Additions will change the Windows display resolution to x Otherwise, if the window is bigger than the VM's screen, the screen will be centered.
If it is smaller, then scroll bars will be added to the machine window. When you click on the Close button of your virtual machine window, at the top right of the window, just like you would close any other window on your system, Oracle VM VirtualBox asks you whether you want to save or power off the VM. Save the machine state: With this option, Oracle VM VirtualBox freezes the virtual machine by completely saving its state to your local disk.
When you start the VM again later, you will find that the VM continues exactly where it was left off. All your programs will still be open, and your computer resumes operation. Saving the state of a virtual machine is thus in some ways similar to suspending a laptop computer by closing its lid. Send the shutdown signal. This will send an ACPI shutdown signal to the virtual machine, which has the same effect as if you had pressed the power button on a real computer.
This should trigger a proper shutdown mechanism from within the VM. Power off the machine: With this option, Oracle VM VirtualBox also stops running the virtual machine, but without saving its state. This is equivalent to pulling the power plug on a real computer without shutting it down properly. If you start the machine again after powering it off, your OS will have to reboot completely and may begin a lengthy check of its virtual system disks. As a result, this should not normally be done, since it can potentially cause data loss or an inconsistent state of the guest system on disk.
As an exception, if your virtual machine has any snapshots, see Section 1. In that case, powering off the machine will not disrupt its state, but any changes made since that snapshot was taken will be lost. The Discard button in the VirtualBox Manager window discards a virtual machine's saved state. This has the same effect as powering it off, and the same warnings apply. VM groups enable the user to create ad hoc groups of VMs, and to manage and perform functions on them collectively, as well as individually.
Select multiple VMs and select Group from the right-click menu. This command creates a group "TestGroup" and attaches the VM "vm01" to that group.
Detach a VM from the group, and delete the group if empty. For example:. This command detaches all groups from the VM "vm01" and deletes the empty group. This command creates the groups "TestGroup" and "TestGroup2", if they do not exist, and attaches the VM "vm01" to both of them.
With snapshots, you can save a particular state of a virtual machine for later use. At any later time, you can revert to that state, even though you may have changed the VM considerably since then. A snapshot of a virtual machine is thus similar to a machine in Saved state, but there can be many of them, and these saved states are preserved. To see the snapshots of a virtual machine, click on the machine name in VirtualBox Manager.
Then click the List icon next to the machine name, and select Snapshots. Until you take a snapshot of the machine, the list of snapshots will be empty except for the Current State item, which represents the "now" point in the lifetime of the virtual machine.
Take a snapshot. This makes a copy of the machine's current state, to which you can go back at any given time later. The snapshots window is shown. Do one of the following:. Click the Take icon. Right-click on the Current State item in the list and select Take. In either case, a window is displayed prompting you for a snapshot name. This name is purely for reference purposes to help you remember the state of the snapshot.
For example, a useful name would be "Fresh installation from scratch, no Guest Additions", or "Service Pack 3 just installed". You can also add a longer text in the Description field. Debian 6. These should be updated after installation.
Mandriva Sound broken. Contoh jika kita akan membuat virtual machine untuk Windows XP maka caranya adalah sebagai berikut : 1 Klik New, kemudian isikan nama virtual machine penentuan nama terserah anda , type Microsoft Windows, Version : Windows XP 2 Langkah ke 2 adalah menentukan ukuran besar memory yang akan digunakan oleh virtual machine.
Ukuran memory ini tidak boleh melebihi kapasitas memory yang ada pada komputer anda. Sebaiknya agar tidak salah dalam penentuan besaran ukuran memori pada virtual machine, gunakan ukuran memory yang direkomendasikan oleh virtualbox saja. Jadi pada saat klik Next pada langkah pertama, secara otomatis pada langkah kedua yaitu ukuran memory akan diisi oleh sistem.
Perhatikan pada penentuan memory, batas terkecil adalah 4 MB sedangkan batas tertinggin adalah sesuai dengan ukuran memory fisik pada komputer. Perhatikan juga pada garis pada ukuran memory, terdapat tiga warna yaitu ; hijau, orange dan merah muda. Tiap warna mewakili posisi pada limit ukuran memory. Mengingat sebagian memory juga digunakan oleh system operasi host. Virtual machine ini membutuhkan hardisk. Oleh karena itu, kita akan membuat hardisk dengan cara pilih Create a virtual hard drive now setelah itu klik Create.
Tips penentuan ukuran hardisk virtual : - Perhatikan drive fisik komputer kita yang masing mempunyai free space yang cukup untuk menampung hardisk virtual. Jika hanya sebatas instalasi OS, maka sebaiknya sesuaikan dengan rekomendasi minimum storage dari sistem operasi yang akan kita install pada virtual machine.
Ada 2 dua pilihan yaitu Dynamically allocated maksudnya adalah, hardisk virtual akan ukurannya akan berkembang seiring penggunaan sampai batas yang ditentukan atau Fixed size secara langsung akan mengambil ukuran sesuai yang ditetapkan pada hardisk fisik komputer kita. Kita memilih Dynamically allocated kemudian klik Next. Pada langkah ini, kita diminta untuk menentukan nama, lokasi penyimpanan dan ukuran hardisk virtual.
Nama silakan diganti bebas terserah anda. Untuk lokasi penyimpanan bisa disimpan pada drive dengan ukuran terbesar di komputer anda. Atau bisa tetap disimpan sebagaimana yang muncul pada wizard ini. Sedangkan ukuran besar hardisk virtual, tetap kita harus memikirkan untuk menyesuaikan dengan ukuran fisik dari hardisk pada komputer kita dan juga menyesuaikan dengan banyaknya program yang akan kita install pada virtual machine.
Pilih Virtual Machine kita kemudian klik Kanan Pada gambar yang Klik Storage ada icon disk, klik empty panduan penggunaan software virtualbox edisi ke-2 victortengker gmail. Informasi pada storage di virtual machine setting berubah seperti pada gambar diatas. Jika sudah selesai dengan setting, klik OK. Konfigurasi Virtual Network Bagian penting pada virtual machine adalah konfigurasi virtual network.
Virtual network berguna apabila kita ingin mengkoneksikan virtual machine dengan host os atau virtual machine dengan virtual machine lainnya. Ada beberapa pilihan mode jaringan pada virtualbox yaitu : 1 Not Attached : Dalam mode ini, VirtualBox memberi tahu Guest bahwa kartu jaringan tersedia, tapi tidak ada koneksi - seolah-olah tidak ada kabel yang terpasang.
When you create a virtual desktop, known as a Guest, it will protect your computer, which is known as the host, if the files you are opening have trojans, worms, viruses, etc.
As long as you create a snapshot before you open the file , the infected software will be completely erased and next time you open the Guest desktop, it will be clean. Instead of buying a PC, Mac, and Linux computers, you can download the free VirtualBox and visualize exactly how your software or program will look and run in different environments.
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