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Oracle VM Manual

The document discusses installation and usage of Oracle VM VirtualBox. It covers installing VirtualBox on different operating systems, creating and running virtual machines, taking snapshots, importing and exporting virtual machines, and other VirtualBox features and settings.

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Oracle VM Manual

The document discusses installation and usage of Oracle VM VirtualBox. It covers installing VirtualBox on different operating systems, creating and running virtual machines, taking snapshots, importing and exporting virtual machines, and other VirtualBox features and settings.

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Contents

Preface i

1 First Steps 1
1.1 Why is Virtualization Useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Some Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Features Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Supported Host Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.5 Host CPU Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.6 Installing Oracle VM VirtualBox and Extension Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.7 Starting Oracle VM VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.8 Creating Your First Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.9 Running Your Virtual Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.9.1 Starting a New VM for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.9.2 Capturing and Releasing Keyboard and Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.9.3 Typing Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.9.4 Changing Removable Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.9.5 Resizing the Machine’s Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.9.6 Saving the State of the Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.10 Using VM Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.11 Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.11.1 Taking, Restoring, and Deleting Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.11.2 Snapshot Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.12 Virtual Machine Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.13 Removing and Moving Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.14 Cloning Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.15 Importing and Exporting Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.15.1 About the OVF Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.15.2 Importing an Appliance in OVF Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.15.3 Exporting an Appliance in OVF Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.15.4 Exporting an Appliance to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.15.5 The Cloud Profile Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.16 Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.17 Alternative Front-Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

2 Installation Details 29
2.1 Installing on Windows Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.1.1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.1.2 Performing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.1.3 Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1.4 Unattended Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1.5 Public Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2 Installing on Mac OS X Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.2.1 Performing the Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.2.2 Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.2.3 Unattended Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.3 Installing on Linux Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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