. . . 54 3.6 Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.1 Screen Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.2 default graphics device emulates a VMware SVGA graphics device. See chapter 3.6.1, Screen Tab, page 54. For legacy guest OSes, a VGA-compatible graphics device is available. 49 3 Configuring Virtual number of screens = number of bytes. Extra memory may be required if display acceleration is used. 54 3 Configuring Virtual Machines • Monitor Count: With this setting, Oracle VM VirtualBox can provide

(interfaces) 54 5.1 IAdditionsFacility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.1.1 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.2 IAdditionsStateChangedEvent (IEvent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.2.1 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.3 IAppliance . . . . . below. It is completely documented in this SDK Reference – see chapter 5, Classes (interfaces), page 54 and chapter 6, Enumerations (enums), page 368 – and available to anyone who wishes to control VirtualBox

(interfaces) 54 5.1 IAdditionsFacility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.1.1 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.2 IAdditionsStateChangedEvent (IEvent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.2.1 Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.3 IAppliance . . . . . below. It is completely documented in this SDK Reference – see chapter 5, Classes (interfaces), page 54 and chapter 6, Enumerations (enums), page 365 – and available to anyone who wishes to control VirtualBox

. . . 54 3.6 Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.1 Screen Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.2 default graphics device emulates a VMware SVGA graphics device. See chapter 3.6.1, Screen Tab, page 54. For legacy guest OSes, a VGA-compatible graphics device is available. 49 3 Configuring Virtual number of screens = number of bytes. Extra memory may be required if display acceleration is used. 54 3 Configuring Virtual Machines • Monitor Count: With this setting, Oracle VM VirtualBox can provide

. . . 54 3.6 Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.1 Screen Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6.2 default graphics device emulates a VMware SVGA graphics device. See chapter 3.6.1, Screen Tab, page 54. For legacy guest OSes, a VGA-compatible graphics device is available. 49 3 Configuring Virtual number of screens = number of bytes. Extra memory may be required if display acceleration is used. 54 3 Configuring Virtual Machines • Monitor Count: With this setting, Oracle VM VirtualBox can provide

. 54 3.8 Network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.9 Serial ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3 protocol and allows the use of remote USB devices. • Audio. See chapter 3.7, Audio settings, page 54. 3.3 General settings In the Settings window, under “General”, you can configure the most fundamental support the Intel AC’97 controller out of the box. 8Serial port support was added with VirtualBox 1.5. 54 3 Configuring virtual machines If a virtual serial port is enabled, the guest operating system sees

. 54 3.8 Network settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.9 Serial ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3 protocol and allows the use of remote USB devices. • Audio. See chapter 3.7, Audio settings, page 54. 3.3 General settings In the Settings window, under “General”, you can configure the most fundamental support the Intel AC’97 controller out of the box. 8Serial port support was added with VirtualBox 1.5. 54 3 Configuring virtual machines If a virtual serial port is enabled, the guest operating system sees

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6 Storage settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.7 Audio settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . images and drives to your virtual machine: 4Multiple monitor support was added with VirtualBox 3.2. 54 3 Configuring virtual machines In a real PC, so-called “storage controllers” connect physical disk When you attach your host’s CD/DVD drive to a virtual machine (see chapter 3.6, Storage settings, page 54), this normally gives the machine read-only access to the host drive. This prevents the guest from

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4 Guest Additions 54 4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4.2 Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions . guest OS and to add extra features. This is described in detail in chapter 4, Guest Additions, page 54. 1.3 Features overview Here’s a brief outline of VirtualBox’s main features: • Portability. VirtualBox graphics and more. The Guest Additions are described in detail in chapter 4, Guest Additions, page 54. 11 1 First steps In particular, Guest Additions provide for “shared folders”, which let you access

. . . 54 3.5.3 Acceleration Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.6 Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.7 Storage changed for compatibility reasons, and the default can of course be changed for each virtual machine. 54 3 Configuring Virtual Machines virtual monitors, the screen resolution and the color depth of the basis either in the VirtualBox Manager in the Display settings, see chapter 3.6, Display Settings, page 54, or with VBoxManage: VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --vrde on By default, the VRDP server uses TCP