VirtualBox

2009年7月21日 (二) 08:00的版本

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "innotek" for more about our company.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

Features

• 64-bit guests (64-bit hosts with CPU virtualisation extensions or experimentally on 64-bit capable 32-bit host operating systems)
• NCQ support for SATA raw disks and partitions
• Snapshots
• Seamless mode
• Clipboard
• Shared folders
• Special drivers and utilities to facilitate switching between systems
• Experimental OpenGL drivers for win32 and Linux to render on Host hardware
• Command line interaction (in addition to the GUI)
• Public API (Java, Python, SOAP, XPCOM) to control VM configuration and execution
• Remote display (useful for headless host machines)
• Nested paging for AMD-V and Intel Core i7
• Raw hard disk access - allows physical hard disk partitions on the host system to appear in the guest system
• VMware Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) support - allows VirtualBox to exchange disk images with VMware
• Microsoft VHD support
• 3D virtualization (Limited support for OpenGL was added to v2.1, more support was added to v2.2, OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D support was added in VirtualBox 3.0)
• SMP support (up to 32 virtual CPUs), since version 3.0

Only available in the full (closed source) version:

• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) control of VM
• USB support, with remote devices over RDP
• iSCSI support
• Open Virtualization Format (OVF) support (import/export)

Debian

VirtualBox on Debian

#apt-cache search virtualbox
#apt-get install virtualbox 
#apt-get -f install

This will complete the installation

Starting the VirtualBox Graphical User Interface

If you want to start Virtualbox GUI use the following command from your terminal(Applications—>Accessories—>Termianl)

VirtualBox // 注意大小写

CentOS

下载RPM包即可安装，如 rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_rhel5-1.i586.rpm

会自动创建组 vboxusers
#/usr/sbin/usermod -g vboxusers allen
$./VirtualBox & // 启动VirtualBox

or

yum install gcc -y
yum install kernel sources -y 
yum install kernel-devel -y
sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Guest OS

以 VirtualBox 的 WinXP 为 Host OS, 安装以下系统, 方便大家的开发、测试和系统评估。

从 http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/ 直接获得 image

ReactOS

CentOS 5 and ReactOS Guest OS

将 ReactOS 作为Windows应用的开发、测试环境。让ReactOS更多的代替WinXP的工作.

Debian

下载 Debian 4 iso 文件, 如 debian-40r2-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso 能非常方便的安装 :) 
http://download.huihoo.com/debian/ or http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/

安装innotek共享文件夹

首先，在innotek中共享文件夹。

然后安装辅助工具包(是一个名为VBoxGuestAdditions.iso的映像文件)，位于VirtualBox的安装目录下。点击“光驱”，加载映像（或者加载到WINDOWS虚拟光驱中）

#apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
#apt-get install build-essential

切换到光驱目录，#sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run，安装完成后重新启动机器

#mount -t vboxsf 共享名 /mnt/某个目录

CentOS

OpenSolaris

OpenSolaris on VirtualBox

This HowTo is based on the Innotek VirtualBox and on 32bit Guest System - not yet tested on 64bit.

Requierements :

• Innotek VirtualBox
• Solaris Express 10 (Developer Edition) or
• Indiana Developer Preview (iso image works fine)
• Windows, MacOS X or Linux as Host System
• should also work with OpenSolaris

More Detail: http://blog.fruhen-infotec.de/pebble/2007/12/06/1196967960000.html

安装 OpenSolaris Indiana iso 文件 http://download.huihoo.com/opensolaris/

注意:

• 安装需要 >4G 的空间, 建议8G.
• 内存比较吃紧的用户可选择安装: Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris

FreeBSD

安装FreeBSD 6.3 iso http://download.huihoo.com/freebsd/

OpenBSD

安装OpenBSD 4.2 iso http://download.huihoo.com/openbsd/

NetBSD

安装NetBSD 4.0 iso http://download.huihoo.com/netbsd/

技巧

• 使用 Right Ctrl 释放 Guest OS 鼠标返回 Host OS
• 使用 Right Ctrl-F 将 Guest OS 全屏

Links

• http://www.virtualbox.org/
• http://download.huihoo.com/virtualbox/
• http://docs.huihoo.com/virtualbox/
• http://openvm.org/