Oracle R ⃝ VM VirtualBox R ⃝ User Manual Version 7.0.0_BETA2 Copyright c⃝ 2004-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates http://www.virtualbox.org Contents Preface i 1 First Steps 1 1.1 Why is Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Some Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Features Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 1.19 Configuration Details and Runtime Information of Virtual Machines . . . . . . . 37 2 Contents 1.19.1 Virtual Machine Details Widget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 1.19

Oracle R ⃝ VM VirtualBox R ⃝ User Manual Version 6.0.0_BETA2 c⃝ 2004-2018 Oracle Corporation https://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First Steps 12 1.1 Why is Virtualization Useful? . . . . . . . 34 1.17 Alternative Front-Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2 Installation Details 36 2.1 Installing on Windows Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2.4.1 Performing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2 Contents 2.4.2 The vboxuser Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 2

Oracle R ⃝ VM VirtualBox R ⃝ Programming Guide and Reference Version 7.0.0_BETA2 Copyright c⃝ 2004-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 Introduction 27 1.1 Modularity: . . . . 30 1.4.2 Authenticating at web service logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2 Environment-specific notes 33 2.1 Using the object-oriented web service (OOWS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5.3.7 getWarnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 2 Contents 5.3.8 importMachines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5

Oracle R ⃝ VM VirtualBox R ⃝ Programming Guide and Reference Version 6.0.0_BETA2 c⃝ 2004-2018 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 Introduction 23 1.1 Modularity: the building . . . . 26 1.4.2 Authenticating at web service logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2 Environment-specific notes 29 2.1 Using the object-oriented web service (OOWS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5.3.7 importMachines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2 Contents 5.3.8 interpret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

. . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 2 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Running . . . . . 4 1.4.2 Authenticating at web service logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Environment-specific notes 7 2.1 Using the object-oriented web service (OOWS) . . . . . . . . . . chapter 2.2, Using the raw web service with any language, page 10, with samples for Java and Perl. 2. Internally, for portability and easier maintenance, the Main API is implemented using the Component

xxvii 1 Modularity: the building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii 2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . xxviii 3 About web services well-documented and well-tested. (The same applies to VBoxHeadless, which is not shown in the image.) 2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM There are several ways in which the chapter 6, Using the raw web service with any language, page xxxvi, with samples for Java and Perl. 2. Internally, for portability and easier maintenance, the Main API is implemented using the Component

xxvii 1 Modularity: the building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii 2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . xxviii 3 About web services well-documented and well-tested. (The same applies to VBoxHeadless, which is not shown in the image.) 2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM There are several ways in which the chapter 6, Using the raw web service with any language, page xxxvi, with samples for Java and Perl. 2. Internally, for portability and easier maintenance, the Main API is implemented using the Component

. . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 2 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Running . . . . . 4 1.4.2 Authenticating at web service logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Environment-specific notes 7 2.1 Using the object-oriented web service (OOWS) . . . . . . . . . . chapter 2.2, Using the raw web service with any language, page 10, with samples for Java and Perl. 2. Internally, for portability and easier maintenance, the Main API is implemented using the Component

.............................................................................................. 68 2 Installation Details............................................................................... Host Key Setting on the Virtual Machine Status Bar....................................... 39 Figure 2: Seamless Windows on a Host Desktop...........................................................126 Figure Tables Table 1: Host and Guest (VM) Platform Combinations Available in VirtualBox.............27 Table 2: Virtual Machine Status Bar Icons..................................................................

. . . . 27 1.4.2 Authenticating at web service logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2 Environment-specific notes 30 2.1 Using the object-oriented web service (OOWS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.3.7 getWarnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 2 Contents 5.3.8 importMachines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5 chapter 2.2, Using the raw web service with any language, page 33, with samples for Java and Perl. 2. Internally, for portability and easier maintenance, the Main API is implemented using the Component