...Oracle VM VirtualBox R User Manual Version 5.0.0 c 2004-2015 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Some terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Features overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Supported host operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Installing VirtualBox and extension packs . . . . . . . . 1.6 Starting VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7 Creating your first virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 Running your virtual machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8.1 Starting a new VM for the first time . . . . . . 1.8.2 Capturing and releasing keyboard and mouse 1.8.3 Typing special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8.4 Changing removable media . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8.5 Resizing the machine’s window . . . . . . . . 1.8.6 Saving the state of the machine . . . . . . . . 1.9 Using VM groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10 Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10.1 Taking, restoring and deleting snapshots . . . 1.10.2 Snapshot contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.11 Virtual machine configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.12 Removing virtual machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.13 Cloning virtual machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.14 Importing and exporting virtual machines . . . . . . . 1.15 Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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