Many More of Sun’s xVM Virtualbox Features Explained
Rick Vanover keeps posting great articles about the various features of Sun’s xVM VirtualBox over at TechTarget’s Server Virtualization Blog. Picking up where I left off on my previous summary post of Rick’s work, check out the following new VirtualBox features articles.
Sun xVM VirtualBox easily enables folder sharing
“One of the features that make desktop virtualization packages attractive is the ability to move files from the host to the guest virtual machine without the use of a network. Sun xVM VirtualBox has this functionality, so let’s go through it for use on Windows systems.”
Using USB device filters with Sun xVM VirtualBox
“The USB device functionality has a nice feature that allows a selective mapping of USB devices from the host to the guest. This can be beneficial if you want a USB device (such as a license key) to be available only to the guest VM and not the host, or vice versa. Within the VM’s configuration, you have the option to specify all devices or specified devices to be connected to the guest VM through USB device filters in the properties of the guest VM.”
Guest Additions installation makes the grade with VirtualBox
“The Guest Additions installation is launched via the virtual machine (VM) console from the devices menu. During this task, one of the VM’s optical drives will be directed to use the Guest Additions .ISO image kept locally. The install is vary straightforward, and the native drivers are updated with the optimized drivers for the video, fixed disk, audio, optical drive and other system components. The networking drivers will likely remain unchanged after installing the Guest Additions package within the VM. Among the unique features of VirtualBox compared to other products is the option to choose among four device types presented to the VM. The Intel Pro and AMD PCnet device options will have different compatibilities with various guest operating systems.”
I also wrote a few posts of my own post about VirtualBox recently, so check out
Creating and Configuring Headless VMs in VirtualBox
and
veeDee-Eyes provides pre-built Linux VMs for Virtualbox
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