Sun Microsystems 3.0.0 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction

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  • 1.1 Virtualization basics

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  • 1.2 Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V)

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  • 1.3 Features overview

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  • 1.4 Supported host operating systems

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  • 1.5 Supported guest operating systems

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  • 1.6 64-bit guests

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• 2 Installation

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  • 2.1 Installing on Windows hosts

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    • 2.1.1 Prerequisites

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    • 2.1.2 Performing the installation

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    • 2.1.3 Uninstallation

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    • 2.1.4 Unattended installation

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  • 2.2 Installing on Mac OS X hosts

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    • 2.2.1 Performing the installation

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    • 2.2.2 Uninstallation

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    • 2.2.3 Unattended installation

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  • 2.3 Installing on Linux hosts

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    • 2.3.1 Prerequisites

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    • 2.3.2 The VirtualBox kernel module

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    • 2.3.3 USB and advanced networking support

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    • 2.3.4 Performing the installation

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    • 2.3.5 Starting VirtualBox on Linux

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  • 2.4 Installing on Solaris hosts

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    • 2.4.1 Performing the installation

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    • 2.4.2 Starting VirtualBox on Solaris

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    • 2.4.3 Uninstallation

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    • 2.4.4 Unattended installation

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    • 2.4.5 Configuring a zone for running VirtualBox

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• 3 Starting out with VirtualBox

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  • 3.1 Starting the graphical user interface

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  • 3.2 Creating a virtual machine

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  • 3.3 Basics of virtual machine configuration

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  • 3.4 Running a virtual machine

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    • 3.4.1 Keyboard and mouse support in virtual machines

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    • 3.4.2 Changing removable media

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    • 3.4.3 Saving the state of the machine

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    • 3.4.4 Snapshots

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  • 3.5 The Virtual Disk Manager

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  • 3.6 Deleting virtual machines

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  • 3.7 Virtual machine settings

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    • 3.7.1 General settings

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    • 3.7.2 System settings

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    • 3.7.3 Display settings

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    • 3.7.4 Hard disk settings

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    • 3.7.5 CD/DVD-ROM and floppy settings

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    • 3.7.6 Audio settings

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    • 3.7.7 Network settings

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    • 3.7.8 Serial ports

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    • 3.7.9 USB support

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    • 3.7.10 Shared folders

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  • 3.8 Importing and exporting virtual machines

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• 4 Guest Additions

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  • 4.1 Introduction

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  • 4.2 Windows Guest Additions

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    • 4.2.1 Installing the Windows Guest Additions

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    • 4.2.2 Updating the Windows Guest Additions

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    • 4.2.3 Unattended Installation

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    • 4.2.4 Manual file extraction

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    • 4.2.5 Windows Vista networking

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  • 4.3 Linux Guest Additions

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    • 4.3.1 Installing the Linux Guest Additions

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    • 4.3.2 Video acceleration and high resolution graphics modes

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    • 4.3.3 Updating the Linux Guest Additions

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  • 4.4 Solaris Guest Additions

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    • 4.4.1 Installing the Solaris Guest Additions

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    • 4.4.2 Uninstalling the Solaris Guest Additions

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    • 4.4.3 Updating the Solaris Guest Additions

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  • 4.5 OS/2 Guest Additions

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  • 4.6 Folder sharing

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  • 4.7 Seamless windows

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  • 4.8 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and DirectX 8/9)

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  • 4.9 Guest properties

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• 5 Virtual storage

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  • 5.1 Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI

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  • 5.2 Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD)

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  • 5.3 Configuring image write operations

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  • 5.4 Cloning disk images

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  • 5.5 iSCSI servers

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    • 5.5.1 Access iSCSI targets via Internal Networking

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• 6 Virtual networking

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  • 6.1 Virtual networking hardware

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  • 6.2 Introduction to networking modes

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  • 6.3 "Not attached" mode

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  • 6.4 Network Address Translation (NAT)

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    • 6.4.1 Configuring port forwarding with NAT

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    • 6.4.2 PXE booting with NAT

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    • 6.4.3 NAT limitations

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  • 6.5 Bridged networking

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  • 6.6 Internal networking

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  • 6.7 Host-only networking

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• 7 Alternative front-ends; remote virtual machines

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  • 7.1 Introduction

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  • 7.2 Using VBoxManage to control virtual machines

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  • 7.3 VBoxSDL, the simplified VM displayer

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  • 7.4 Remote virtual machines (VRDP support)

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    • 7.4.1 VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server

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    • 7.4.2 Step by step: creating a virtual machine on a headless server

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    • 7.4.3 Remote USB

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    • 7.4.4 RDP authentication

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    • 7.4.5 RDP encryption

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    • 7.4.6 VRDP multiple connections

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• 8 VBoxManage reference

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  • 8.1 VBoxManage list

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  • 8.2 VBoxManage showvminfo

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  • 8.3 VBoxManage registervm / unregistervm

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  • 8.4 VBoxManage createvm

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  • 8.5 VBoxManage modifyvm

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    • 8.5.1 General settings

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    • 8.5.2 Storage settings

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    • 8.5.3 Networking settings

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    • 8.5.4 Serial port, audio, clipboard, VRDP and USB settings

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  • 8.6 VBoxManage import

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  • 8.7 VBoxManage export

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  • 8.8 VBoxManage startvm

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  • 8.9 VBoxManage controlvm

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  • 8.10 VBoxManage discardstate

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  • 8.11 VBoxManage snapshot

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  • 8.12 VBoxManage openmedium / closemedium

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  • 8.13 VBoxManage showhdinfo

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  • 8.14 VBoxManage createhd

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  • 8.15 VBoxManage modifyhd

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  • 8.16 VBoxManage clonehd

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  • 8.17 VBoxManage convertfromraw

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  • 8.18 VBoxManage addiscsidisk

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  • 8.19 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata

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  • 8.20 VBoxManage setproperty

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  • 8.21 VBoxManage usbfilter add/modify/remove

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  • 8.22 VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove

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  • 8.23 VBoxManage metrics

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  • 8.24 VBoxManage guestproperty

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  • 8.25 VBoxManage dhcpserver

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• 9 Advanced topics

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  • 9.1 VirtualBox configuration data

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  • 9.2 Automated Windows guest logons (VBoxGINA)

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  • 9.3 Custom external VRDP authentication

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  • 9.4 Secure labeling with VBoxSDL

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  • 9.5 Custom VESA resolutions

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  • 9.6 Multiple monitors for the guest

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  • 9.7 Releasing modifiers with VBoxSDL on Linux

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  • 9.8 Launching more than 120 VMs on Solaris hosts

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  • 9.9 Using serial ports

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  • 9.10 Using a raw host hard disk from a guest

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    • 9.10.1 Access to entire physical hard disk

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    • 9.10.2 Access to individual physical hard disk partitions

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  • 9.11 Allowing a virtual machine to start even with unavailable CD/DVD/floppy devices

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  • 9.12 Fine-tuning the VirtualBox NAT engine

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    • 9.12.1 Configuring the address of a NAT network interface

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    • 9.12.2 Configuring the boot server (next server) of a NAT network interface

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    • 9.12.3 Tuning TCP/IP buffers for NAT

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    • 9.12.4 Binding NAT sockets to a specific interface

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    • 9.12.5 Enabling DNS proxy in NAT mode

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  • 9.13 Configuring the maximum resolution of guests when using the graphical frontend

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  • 9.14 Configuring the BIOS DMI information

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  • 9.15 Configuring the guest time stamp counter (TSC) to reflect guest execution

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  • 9.16 Configuring the hard disk vendor product data (VPD)

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• 10 VirtualBox programming interfaces

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• 11 Troubleshooting

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  • 11.1 General

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    • 11.1.1 Collecting debugging information

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    • 11.1.2 Guest shows IDE errors for VDI on slow host file system

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    • 11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE flush requests

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  • 11.2 Windows guests

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    • 11.2.1 Windows bluescreens after changing VM configuration

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    • 11.2.2 Windows 0x101 bluescreens with SMP enabled (IPI timeout)

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    • 11.2.3 Windows 2000 installation failures

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    • 11.2.4 How to record bluescreen information from Windows guests

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    • 11.2.5 No networking in Windows Vista guests

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    • 11.2.6 Windows guests may cause a high CPU load

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  • 11.3 Linux guests

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    • 11.3.1 Linux guests may cause a high CPU load

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    • 11.3.2 AMD Barcelona CPUs

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    • 11.3.3 Buggy Linux 2.6 kernel versions

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  • 11.4 Windows hosts

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    • 11.4.1 VBoxSVC out-of-process COM server issues

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    • 11.4.2 CD/DVD changes not recognized

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    • 11.4.3 Sluggish response when using Microsoft RDP client

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    • 11.4.4 Running an iSCSI initiator and target on a single system

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  • 11.5 Linux hosts

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    • 11.5.1 Linux kernel module refuses to load

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    • 11.5.2 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found

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    • 11.5.3 Linux host CD/DVD drive not found (older distributions)

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    • 11.5.4 Linux host floppy not found

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    • 11.5.5 Strange guest IDE error messages when writing to CD/DVD

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    • 11.5.6 VBoxSVC IPC issues

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    • 11.5.7 USB not working

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    • 11.5.8 PAX/grsec kernels

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    • 11.5.9 Linux kernel vmalloc pool exhausted

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  • 11.6 Solaris hosts

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    • 11.6.1 Cannot start VM, not enough contiguous memory

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    • 11.6.2 VM aborts with out of memory errors on Solaris 10 hosts

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• 12 Change log

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  • 12.1 Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)

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  • 12.2 Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)

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  • 12.3 Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)

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  • 12.4 Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)

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  • 12.5 Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)

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  • 12.6 Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)

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  • 12.7 Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)

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  • 12.8 Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)

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  • 12.9 Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)

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  • 12.10 Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)

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  • 12.11 Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)

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  • 12.12 Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)

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  • 12.13 Version 1.6.6 (2008-08-26)

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  • 12.14 Version 1.6.4 (2008-07-30)

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  • 12.15 Version 1.6.2 (2008-05-28)

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  • 12.16 Version 1.6.0 (2008-04-30)

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  • 12.17 Version 1.5.6 (2008-02-19)

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  • 12.18 Version 1.5.4 (2007-12-29)

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  • 12.19 Version 1.5.2 (2007-10-18)

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  • 12.20 Version 1.5.0 (2007-08-31)

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  • 12.21 Version 1.4.0 (2007-06-06)

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  • 12.22 Version 1.3.8 (2007-03-14)

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  • 12.23 Version 1.3.6 (2007-02-20)

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  • 12.24 Version 1.3.4 (2007-02-12)

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  • 12.25 Version 1.3.2 (2007-01-15)

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  • 12.26 Version 1.2.4 (2006-11-16)

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  • 12.27 Version 1.2.2 (2006-11-14)

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  • 12.28 Version 1.1.12 (2006-11-14)

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  • 12.29 Version 1.1.10 (2006-07-28)

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  • 12.30 Version 1.1.8 (2006-07-17)

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  • 12.31 Version 1.1.6 (2006-04-18)

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  • 12.32 Version 1.1.4 (2006-03-09)

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  • 12.33 Version 1.1.2 (2006-02-03)

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  • 12.34 Version 1.0.50 (2005-12-16)

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  • 12.35 Version 1.0.48 (2005-11-23)

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  • 12.36 Version 1.0.46 (2005-11-04)

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  • 12.37 Version 1.0.44 (2005-10-25)

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  • 12.38 Version 1.0.42 (2005-08-30)

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  • 12.39 Version 1.0.40 (2005-06-17)

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  • 12.40 Version 1.0.39 (2005-05-05)

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  • 12.41 Version 1.0.38 (2005-04-27)

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  • 12.42 Version 1.0.37 (2005-04-12)

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• 13 Known limitations

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• 14 Third-party licenses

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  • 14.1 Materials

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  • 14.2 Licenses

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    • 14.2.1 GNU General Public License (GPL)

      218
    • 14.2.2 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

      223
    • 14.2.3 Mozilla Public License (MPL)

      230
    • 14.2.4 X Consortium License (X11)

      237
    • 14.2.5 zlib license

      237
    • 14.2.6 OpenSSL license

      238
    • 14.2.7 Slirp license

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    • 14.2.8 liblzf license

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    • 14.2.9 libpng license

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    • 14.2.10 lwIP license

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    • 14.2.11 libxml license

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    • 14.2.12 libxslt licenses

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    • 14.2.13 gSOAP Public License Version 1.3a

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    • 14.2.14 Chromium licenses

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    • 14.2.15 curl license

      251
    • 14.2.16 dnsproxy license

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• 15 VirtualBox privacy policy

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• Glossary

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