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Changeset 105939 in vbox


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Timestamp:
Sep 4, 2024 7:37:02 AM (5 months ago)
Author:
vboxsync
Message:

Docs: reverting r164669.

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trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita
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  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/UserManual.ditamap

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    258258         <topicref href="topics/guestadd-video.dita">
    259259            <topicref href="topics/guestadd-3d.dita"/>
     260            <topicref href="topics/guestadd-2d.dita"/>
    260261         </topicref>
    261262         <topicref href="topics/seamlesswindows.dita"/>
    … …  
    561562         <topicref href="topics/ts_win-cpu-usage-rept.dita"/>
    562563         <topicref href="topics/ts_host-powermgmt.dita"/>
     564         <topicref href="topics/ts_gui-2d-grayed-out.dita"/>
    563565      </topicref>
    564566      <topicref href="topics/ts_win-guests.dita">

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/ExperimentalFeatures.dita

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    55 
    66  <body>
    7     <p> Some <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> features are labeled as experimental. Such features are provided on an "as-is" basis and are not formally supported. However, feedback and suggestions about such features are welcome. A comprehensive list of experimental features is as follows: </p>
     7    <p>
     8      Some <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> features are labeled as experimental. Such
     9      features are provided on an "as-is" basis and are not formally
     10      supported. However, feedback and suggestions about such features
     11      are welcome. A comprehensive list of experimental features is as
     12      follows:
     13    </p>
    814    <ul>
    915      <li>
    … …  
    1117          Hardware 3D acceleration support for Windows, Linux, and
    1218          Oracle Solaris guests
     19        </p>
     20      </li>
     21      <li>
     22        <p>
     23          Hardware 2D video playback acceleration support for Windows
     24          guests
    1325        </p>
    1426      </li>
    … …  
    3951      </li>
    4052      <li>
    41         <p> Using <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> and Hyper-V on the same host </p>
     53        <p>
     54          Using <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> and Hyper-V on the same host
     55        </p>
    4256      </li>
    4357    </ul>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/KnownProblems.dita

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    1919            >Hyper-V</b> on the same host. To fix this, certain Windows features like "Hyper-V Platform", "Virtual
    2020          Machine Platform" and "Windows Hypervisor Platform" must be turned off, followed by a host reboot. </p>
    21         <p>On newer Windows versions, enabling the device security features Core Isolation or Memory Integrity will use Hyper-V, even if you had previously turned it off.</p>
    2221        <p>Additionally, the Microsoft Device Guard and Credential Guard hardware readiness tool might have to be used
    2322          in order to turn off more features. For example, by running the following command: </p>
    … …  
    139138          <ul id="ul_ddr_kzn_hcc">
    140139            <li>
    141               <p>x86-based guest operating systems will not run.</p>
    142             </li>
    143             <li>
     140              <p>x86-based guest operating systems will not run</p>
     141      </li>
     142      <li>
    144143              <p>Arm(AArch64) guests only. Arm 32 is not supported at present.</p>
    145144            </li>
    … …  
    200199        <ul>
    201200          <li>
    202             <p>USB support on Oracle Solaris hosts requires Oracle Solaris 11 FCS or later. Webcams and other isochronous devices are known to have poor performance. </p>
     201            <p>USB support on Oracle Solaris hosts requires Oracle Solaris 11 version snv_124 or later. Webcams and
     202              other isochronous devices are known to have poor performance. </p>
    203203          </li>
    204204          <li>
    … …  
    213213          </li>
    214214          <li>
    215             <p>Crossbow-based bridged networking on Oracle Solaris 11 hosts does not work directly with aggregate links. However, you can use <userinput>dladm</userinput> to manually create a VNIC over the aggregate link and use that with a VM. This limitation does not exist in Oracle Solaris 11 update 1 (11.1) and later. </p>
     215            <p>Crossbow-based bridged networking on Oracle Solaris 11 hosts does not work directly with aggregate links.
     216              However, you can use <userinput>dladm</userinput> to manually create a VNIC over the aggregate link and
     217              use that with a VM. This limitation does not exist in Oracle Solaris 11u1 build 17 and later. </p>
    216218          </li>
    217219        </ul>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/arm-host-limitations.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="arm-host-limitations">
    44  <title>Arm Host Limitations</title>
     5  <!-- 7.1: Arm platform limitations -->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>The following limitations apply when using an Arm platform host:</p>
    … …  
    910    <li><p>Only VMSVGA is supported as a graphics controller.</p></li>
    1011      <li>
    11         <p>3D video acceleration isn't available on Arm hosts.</p>
    12       </li>   
     12        <p>2D and 3D video acceleration isn't available on Arm hosts.</p>
     13      </li>
     14      <li><p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Guest Additions are not available for Arm
     15          host platforms. Therefore, features such as seamless windows and shared folders are not
     16          available.</p></li>   
    1317      <li><p>Unattended installation isn't available.</p></li>
    1418      <li><p>The following <b>System</b> page settings aren't available for Arm guests:</p>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/autologon_win.dita

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    5858      </li>
    5959      <li>
    60         <p><b outputclass="bold">Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 guests.</b> The login subsystem does not support the so-called Secure Attention Sequence, <codeph>Ctrl+Alt+Del</codeph>. As a result, the guest's group policy settings need to be changed to not use the Secure Attention Sequence. Also, the user name given is only compared to the true user name, not the user friendly name. This means that when you rename a user, you still have to supply the original user name as Windows never renames user accounts internally. </p>
     60        <p><b outputclass="bold">Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8,
     61            and Windows 10 guests.</b> The login subsystem does
     62            not support the so-called Secure Attention Sequence,
     63            <codeph>Ctrl+Alt+Del</codeph>. As a result, the guest's
     64            group policy settings need to be changed to not use the
     65            Secure Attention Sequence. Also, the user name given is only
     66            compared to the true user name, not the user friendly name.
     67            This means that when you rename a user, you still have to
     68            supply the original user name as Windows never renames user
     69            accounts internally.
     70          </p>
    6171      </li>
    6272      <li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/cloud-vm-control.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="cloud-vm-control">
    44  <title>Controlling a Cloud VM</title>
     5  <!-- 7.1: OCI instance reset feature-->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>You can use <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> to control a cloud VM as follows: </p>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/cloud-vm-monitor.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="cloud-vm-monitor">
    44  <title>Monitoring Cloud VM Performance</title>
     5  <!--7.1: OCI instance monitoring -->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>You can monitor the performance of cloud VM instances in the following ways:</p>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/create-optical-disk-image.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="create-optical-disk-image">
    44  <title>Creating a Virtual Optical Disk Image</title>
     5  <!-- 7.1: Can now import VISO files-->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>Use the <b outputclass="bold">VISO Creator</b> tool to create a virtual optical disk image. This enables you to

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/create-vm-wizard-name-os.dita

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    22<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="create-vm-wizard-name-os">
    4   <title>Specify Name and Operating System</title>
     4  <title>Specify Name and Operating System</title>
     5 <!--7.1: Subtype field added -->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/create-vm-wizard.dita

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    2020      VM. <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> does not supply the OS or any license required to use
    2121      it. </p>
     22    <p><!--7.1: Note added re platforms and paragraph re ISO requirement. Reworded when removing screenshots. Subpages also updated.--></p>
    2223  </body>
    2324</topic>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/features-overview.dita

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    1111    <ul>
    1212      <li>
    13         <p><b outputclass="bold">Portability. </b>
    14           <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> runs on a large number of 64-bit host operating systems. See <xref href="hostossupport.dita#hostossupport"/>. </p>
     13        <p><b outputclass="bold">Portability.</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
     14          runs on a large number of 64-bit host operating systems. See
     15          <xref href="hostossupport.dita#hostossupport"/>.
     16        </p>
    1517        <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> is a so-called <i>hosted</i> hypervisor, sometimes
    1618          referred to as a <i>type 2</i> hypervisor. Whereas a <i>bare-metal</i> or <i>type 1</i> hypervisor runs
    … …  
    5052        <ul>
    5153          <li>
    52             <p><b outputclass="bold">Guest multiprocessing (SMP). </b>
    53               <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can present up to 32 virtual CPUs to each virtual machine, irrespective of how many CPU cores are physically present on your host. </p>
     54            <p><b outputclass="bold">Guest multiprocessing
     55              (SMP).</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can present up to 32
     56              virtual CPUs to each virtual machine, irrespective of how
     57              many CPU cores are physically present on your host.
     58            </p>
    5459          </li>
    5560          <li>
    5661            <p><b outputclass="bold">USB device support.</b>
    57               <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> implements a virtual USB controller and enables you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device-specific drivers on the host. USB support is not limited to certain device categories. See <xref href="settings-usb.dita#settings-usb"/>. </p>
     62              <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> implements a virtual USB controller and
     63              enables you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your
     64              virtual machines without having to install device-specific
     65              drivers on the host. USB support is not limited to certain
     66              device categories. See <xref href="settings-usb.dita#settings-usb"/>.
     67            </p>
    5868          </li>
    5969          <li>
    6070            <p><b outputclass="bold">Hardware compatibility.</b>
    61               <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> virtualizes a vast array of virtual devices, among them many devices that are typically provided by other virtualization platforms. That includes IDE, SCSI, and SATA hard disk controllers, several virtual network cards and sound cards, virtual serial ports and an Input/Output Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (I/O APIC), which is found in many computer systems. This enables easy cloning of disk images from real machines and importing of third-party virtual machines into <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. </p>
     71              <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> virtualizes a vast array of
     72              virtual devices, among them many devices that are typically provided by other
     73              virtualization platforms. That includes IDE, SCSI, and SATA hard disk controllers,
     74              several virtual network cards and sound cards, virtual serial ports and an
     75              Input/Output Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (I/O APIC), which is found in
     76              many computer systems. This enables easy cloning of disk images from real machines and
     77              importing of third-party virtual machines into <ph
     78                conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. </p>
    6279          </li>
    6380          <li>
    … …  
    7794          <li>
    7895            <p><b outputclass="bold">Multiscreen resolutions.</b>
    79               <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> virtual machines support screen resolutions many times that of a physical screen, allowing them to be spread over a large number of screens attached to the host system. </p>
     96              <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> virtual machines support screen resolutions
     97              many times that of a physical screen, allowing them to be
     98              spread over a large number of screens attached to the host
     99              system.
     100            </p>
    80101          </li>
    81102          <li>
    … …  
    99120      </li>
    100121      <li>
    101         <p><b outputclass="bold">Multigeneration branched snapshots.</b>
    102           <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can save arbitrary snapshots of the state of the virtual machine. You can go back in time and revert the virtual machine to any such snapshot and start an alternative VM configuration from there, effectively creating a whole snapshot tree. See <xref href="snapshots.dita#snapshots"/>. You can create and delete snapshots while the virtual machine is running. </p>
     122        <p><b outputclass="bold">Multigeneration branched
     123          snapshots.</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can save arbitrary
     124          snapshots of the state of the virtual machine. You can go back
     125          in time and revert the virtual machine to any such snapshot
     126          and start an alternative VM configuration from there,
     127          effectively creating a whole snapshot tree. See
     128          <xref href="snapshots.dita#snapshots"/>. You can create and delete
     129          snapshots while the virtual machine is running.
     130        </p>
    103131      </li>
    104132      <li>
    105         <p><b outputclass="bold">VM groups.</b>
    106           <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> provides a groups feature that enables the user to organize and control virtual machines collectively, as well as individually. In addition to basic groups, it is also possible for any VM to be in more than one group, and for groups to be nested in a hierarchy. This means you can have groups of groups. In general, the operations that can be performed on groups are the same as those that can be applied to individual VMs: Start, Pause, Reset, Close (Save state, Send Shutdown, Poweroff), Discard Saved State, Show in File System, Sort. </p>
     133        <p><b outputclass="bold">VM groups.</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
     134          provides a groups feature that enables the user to organize
     135          and control virtual machines collectively, as well as
     136          individually. In addition to basic groups, it is also possible
     137          for any VM to be in more than one group, and for groups to be
     138          nested in a hierarchy. This means you can have groups of
     139          groups. In general, the operations that can be performed on
     140          groups are the same as those that can be applied to individual
     141          VMs: Start, Pause, Reset, Close (Save state, Send Shutdown,
     142          Poweroff), Discard Saved State, Show in File System, Sort.
     143        </p>
    107144      </li>
    108145      <li>
    109         <p><b outputclass="bold">Clean architecture and unprecedented modularity.</b>
    110           <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a clean separation of client and server code. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once. For example, you can start a VM simply by clicking on a button in the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> graphical user interface and then control that machine from the command line, or even remotely. See <xref href="frontends.dita#frontends"/>. </p>
     146        <p><b outputclass="bold">Clean architecture and unprecedented
     147          modularity.</b> <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has an extremely modular
     148          design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a
     149          clean separation of client and server code. This makes it easy
     150          to control it from several interfaces at once. For example,
     151          you can start a VM simply by clicking on a button in the
     152          <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> graphical user interface and then control that
     153          machine from the command line, or even remotely. See
     154          <xref href="frontends.dita#frontends"/>.
     155        </p>
    111156        <p>Due to its modular architecture, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can also expose its
    112157          full functionality and configurability through a comprehensive <b outputclass="bold">software development kit

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/frontends.dita

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    3333      </li>
    3434      <li>
     35        <!-- Separate mode: check with Klaus whether this needs to be covered in 7.1-->
    3536        <p><b>Separate mode.</b> A front end that is based on <userinput>VBoxHeadless</userinput>,
    3637          but does not require VRDE or an RDP viewer. See <xref href="vboxheadless-separate-mode.dita">Separate Mode</xref>.</p>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/guest-os-Arm.dita

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    11<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
    22<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
    3 <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guest-os-arm">
     3<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestossupport">
    44  <title>Arm Guest Operating Systems</title>
     5 
    56  <body>
    67    <p>Oracle Premier Support covers the running of the following guest OSs in a VM with an Arm platform architecture.</p>
    … …  
    1920      </ul>
    2021    </p>
     22   
     23   
    2124  </body>
    2225</topic>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/guest-os-legacy.dita

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    1010    <p>The following legacy guest operating systems can be used with <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, but only qualify for limited support because of the vintage of the technology involved. Therefore, resolution of customer issues for such legacy guest operating systems cannot be assured. </p>
    1111    <p>See also <xref href="host-guest-matrix.dita"/>.</p>
    12     <p>VMs with an x86 or x86-64 platform architecture, as appropriate might run<ul id="guest-os-other">
     12    <p>VMs with an x86 or x86-64 platform architecture, as appropriate might run<ul id="ul_j5n_srf_3cc">
    1313        <li>Windows 8 and 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit) </li>
    1414        <li>Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) </li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/guest-os-x86-64.dita

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    11<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
    22<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
    3 <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guest-os-x86">
     3<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestossupport">
    44  <title>x86 Guest Operating Systems</title>
     5 
    56  <body>
    67    <p>Oracle Premier Support covers the running of the following guest OSs in a VM with an x86 or x86-64 platform architecture, as appropriate.</p>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/guestadd-clipboard.dita

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    55 
    66  <body>
     7    <!-- 7.1: Shared clipboard check box; clarify operation with dev -->
    78    <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> enables you to copy clipboard content from the host to the
    89      guest, and vice versa. For this to work the latest version of the Guest Additions must be installed on the
    9       guest.</p>
     10      guest.</p>   
    1011    <p>For security reasons drag and drop can be configured at runtime on a per-VM basis either using the <b
    1112        outputclass="bold">Shared Clipboard</b> menu item in the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu of the virtual

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/guestadd-gc-file-manager.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestadd-gc-file-manager">
    44  <title>Guest Control File Manager</title>
     5  <!-- 7.1: new icons added, pic removed-->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>If you have Guest Additions installed, you can use the Guest Control File Manager to copy files between a virtual

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/guestadd-intro.dita

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    5151          had manually entered an arbitrary resolution in the guest's <b outputclass="bold">Display</b> settings. See
    5252            <xref href="intro-resize-window.dita#intro-resize-window"/>. </p>
    53         <p>If the Guest Additions are installed, 3D graphics for guest applications can be accelerated. See <xref href="guestadd-video.dita#guestadd-video"/>. </p>
     53        <p>If the Guest Additions are installed, 3D graphics and 2D video for guest applications can be accelerated. See
     54            <xref href="guestadd-video.dita#guestadd-video"/>. </p>
    5455      </li>
    5556      <li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/gui-tools-global.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="gui-tools-global">
    44  <title>Global Tools</title>
    5   <!--This topic needs turned around to be global config tasks.-->
     5  <!-- 7.1: May be best to remove screen shots of menus. Too much of a maintenance headache. DONE. This topic needs turned around to be global config tasks.-->
    66  <body>
    77    <p>In the left pane of the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> window, click the <b outputclass="bold"

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/gui-vmgroups.dita

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    55 
    66  <body>
     7      <!-- 7.1: pic removed-->
    78    <p>Create VM groups if you want to manage several VMs together, and perform functions on them collectively, as well
    89      as individually. </p>

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="hostossupport">
    44  <title>Available Installation Packages</title>
     5  <!-- 7.1: Arm platforms; require statement on host support -->
    56  <body>
    67    <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> runs on the following host Operating Systems (OSs): </p>

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    55 
    66  <body>
    7     <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> enables you to install and execute unmodified versions of macOS and OS X guests on supported host hardware. This feature is experimental and thus unsupported. </p>
     7    <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> enables you to install and execute unmodified versions of macOS and OS X guests on supported host hardware. Note that this feature is experimental and thus unsupported. </p>
    88    <p>Be aware of the following important issues before you try to install a macOS guest: </p>
    99    <ul>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/log-viewer.dita

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    88      records system configuration and events. The <b outputclass="bold">Log Viewer</b> is a <ph
    99        conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> tool that enables you to view and analyze system logs. </p>
     10    <!-- 7.1: New pic required? Tab operation changed. Log Viewer/Filter pane. bugref:10496
     11Pic removed... still need to change/add anything?-->
    1012    <p>To display the Log Viewer, do either of the following: </p>
    1113    <ul>

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    99    <ul>
    1010      <li>
    11         <p>AMD PCNet PCI II (Am79C970A) Not available on Arm guests.</p>
     11        <p>AMD PCNet PCI II (Am79C970A) </p>
    1212      </li>
    1313      <li>
    14         <p>AMD PCNet FAST III (Am79C973), the default setting on x86 guests. Not available on Arm guests.</p>
     14        <p>AMD PCNet FAST III (Am79C973), the default setting </p>
    1515      </li>
    1616      <li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/seamlesswindows.dita

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    55 
    66  <body>
    7     <p>With the <i>seamless windows</i> feature of <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, you can have the windows that are displayed within a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your host. This feature is supported for the following x86 or x86_64 guest operating systems, provided that the Guest Additions are installed: </p>
     7    <p>With the <i>seamless windows</i> feature of <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, you can have the windows that are displayed within a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your host. This feature is supported for the following guest operating systems, provided that the Guest Additions are installed: </p>
    88    <ul>
    99      <li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/security_clipboard.dita

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    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="security_clipboard">
    44  <title>Clipboard</title>
     5  <!-- 7.1: Shared clipboard toggle in guest VM, bugref:10481; input from dev required -->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>The shared clipboard enables users to share data between the host and the guest. Enabling the clipboard in

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/settings-general-advanced.dita

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    3232          using the <b outputclass="bold">Shared Clipboard</b> menu item in the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu
    3333          of the virtual machine. </p>
     34        <!--7.1: r159813: checkbox added to the Shared Clipboard menu? -->
    3435      </li>
    3536      <li>
    … …  
    4041            enable restricting of access in either direction.
    4142          </p>
    42         <p>For drag and drop to work, the Guest Additions need to be installed on the guest. </p>
     43        <p>For drag and drop to work the Guest Additions need to be installed on the guest. </p>
    4344        <note>
    4445          <p>Drag and drop is disabled by default. This setting can be changed at any time using the <b
    4546              outputclass="bold">Drag and Drop</b> menu item in the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu of the
    4647            virtual machine. </p>
    47           <p>See <xref href="guestadd-dnd.dita#guestadd-dnd"/>. </p>
    4848        </note>
     49        <p>See <xref href="guestadd-dnd.dita#guestadd-dnd"/>. </p>
    4950      </li>
    5051    </ul>

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    44
    55<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="soft-keyb">
     6  <!-- 7.1: pic removed-->
    67  <title>Soft Keyboard</title>
    78  <body>

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    2525            <ul>
    2626              <li>
    27                 <p>On Linux and Oracle Solaris hosts, <userinput>VBoxAuth.so</userinput> authenticates users against the host's PAM system. </p>
     27                <p>On Linux hosts, <userinput>VBoxAuth.so</userinput> authenticates users against the host's PAM system. </p>
    2828              </li>
    2929              <li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vboxheadless-separate-mode.dita

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    44  <title>Separate Mode</title>
    55  <body>
     6    <!-- 7.1: Include this topic? Get feedback during doc review -->
    67    <p>Separate mode is an alternative front end for local and remote virtual machines. Separate
    78      mode is based on the <userinput>VBoxHeadless</userinput> front end but uses the <ph

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vboxmanage-intro.dita

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    66           
    77            <body>
    8                <p>As briefly mentioned in <xref href="frontends.dita#frontends"/>, <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> is the CLI to <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. With it, you can control <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> from the command line of your host operating system. <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> supports all the features that the graphical user interface gives you access to, but it supports a lot more than that. It exposes all the features of the virtualization engine, even those that cannot be accessed from the GUI. </p>
     8               <p>As briefly mentioned in <xref href="frontends.dita#frontends"/>, <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> is
     9      the command-line interface to <ph conkeyref = "vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. With it, you can completely control <ph conkeyref = "vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> from the
     10      command line of your host operating system. <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> supports all the features that the
     11      graphical user interface gives you access to, but it supports a lot more than that. It exposes all the features of
     12      the virtualization engine, even those that cannot be accessed from the GUI. </p>
    913               <p>You will need to use the command line if you want to do the
    1014      following:
    … …  
    5357                  </li>
    5458               </ul>
    55                <p>You can enter <userinput>VBoxManage list vms</userinput> to have all currently registered VMs listed with their respective names and UUIDs. </p>
     59               <p>You can enter <userinput>VBoxManage list vms</userinput> to have all currently registered VMs listed
     60      with all their settings, including their respective names and UUIDs. </p>
    5661               <p>Some typical examples of how to control <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> from the
    5762      command line are listed below: </p>
    … …  
    6166            conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, use <userinput>VBoxManage createvm</userinput> with the
    6267          <!--option not processed within -->--register option, as follows: </p>
    63                      <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage createvm --name "SUSE 15.2" --register
    64 Virtual machine 'SUSE 15.2' is created.
     68                     <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxManage createvm --name "SUSE 10.2" --register
     69VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version <varname>version-number</varname>
     70(C) 2005-2018 Oracle Corporation
     71All rights reserved.
     72
     73Virtual machine 'SUSE 10.2' is created.
    6574UUID: c89fc351-8ec6-4f02-a048-57f4d25288e5
    66 Settings file: '/home/username/VirtualBox VMs/SUSE 15.2/SUSE 15.2.vbox'</pre>
    67                      <p>As can be seen from the above output, a new virtual machine has been created with a new UUID and a new XML-formatted settings file. </p>
     75Settings file: '/home/username/.config/VirtualBox/Machines/SUSE 10.2/SUSE 10.2.xml'</pre>
     76                     <p>As can be seen from the above output, a new virtual machine has been created with a new UUID and
     77          a new XML settings file. </p>
    6878                     <p>
    6979          For more details, see
    … …  
    8696          See <xref href="vboxmanage-storagectl.dita"/> and <xref href="vboxmanage-storageattach.dita"/>. </p>
    8797                  </li>
    88          <li>
    89             <p>To start a VM that is currently powered off, use <userinput>VBoxManage startvm</userinput>. See <xref href="vboxmanage-startvm.dita"/>. </p>
    90          </li>
    9198                  <li>
    92                      <p>To change a running VM's setttings or change its state (such as pausing, saving, or powering off the VM) use <userinput>VBoxManage controlvm</userinput> See <xref href="vboxmanage-controlvm.dita"/>.</p>
     99                     <p>To control VM operation, use one of the following: </p>
     100                     <ul>
     101                        <li>
     102                           <p>To start a VM that is currently powered off, use <userinput>VBoxManage
     103              startvm</userinput>. See <xref href="vboxmanage-startvm.dita"/>. </p>
     104                        </li>
     105                        <li>
     106                           <p>To pause or save a VM that is currently running or change some of its settings, use
     107                <userinput>VBoxManage controlvm</userinput>. See <xref href="vboxmanage-controlvm.dita"/>. </p>
     108                        </li>
     109                     </ul>
    93110                  </li>
    94111               </ul>

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    2020                  </li>
    2121                  <li>
    22                      <p><b outputclass="bold">Guest operating system (guest OS).</b> This is the OS that is running inside the virtual machine. Theoretically, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can run any x86 OS such as DOS, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD on an x86 host. But to achieve near-native performance of the guest code on your machine, we had to go through a lot of optimizations that are specific to certain OSs. So while your favorite OS <i>may</i> run as a guest, we officially support and optimize for a select few, which include the most common OSs. </p>
    23                      <p>See <xref href="guest-os.dita"/>.</p>
     22                     <p><b outputclass="bold">Guest operating system (guest OS).</b> This is the OS that is running
     23          inside the virtual machine. Theoretically, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> can run any
     24          x86 OS such as DOS, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. But to achieve near-native performance of the guest
     25          code on your machine, we had to go through a lot of optimizations that are specific to certain OSes. So while
     26          your favorite OS <i>may</i> run as a guest, we officially support and optimize for a select few, which include
     27          the most common OSes. </p>
     28                     <p>See <xref href="guestossupport.dita#guestossupport"/>. </p>
    2429                  </li>
    2530                  <li>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vm-activity-overview.dita

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    33  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
    44<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vm-activity-overview">
     5  <!-- 7.1: Now shows activity info for cloud VMs -->
    56               <title>VM Activity Overview</title>
    67               <body>

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vm-activity-session-information.dita

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    44<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vm-activity-session-information">
    55               <title>Session Information Dialog</title>
     6  <!-- 7.1: metrics info for OCI instances--> 
     7  <!-- 7.1: Add pic for cloud VM Activity info? No.. removing pics.-->
    68               <body>
    79                  <p>The Session Information dialog includes multiple tabs that show important configuration and runtime

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vm-info.dita

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    33  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
    44<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vm-info">
    5             <title>Monitoring of Virtual Machines</title>       
     5            <title>Monitoring of Virtual Machines</title>
     6  <!-- 7.1: metrics info now included for OCI instances -->       
    67            <body>
    78               <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> includes the following tools for viewing runtime

  • trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/vm-status-bar.dita

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    22<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
    33<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vm-status-bar">
    4   <title>Virtual Machine Status Bar</title>
     4  <title>Virtual Machine Status Bar</title>
     5 <!-- 7.1: Processor icon updated -->
    56  <body>
    67    <p>A status bar is displayed at the bottom of the virtual machine window. The status bar contains icons that enable
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