VirtualBox HOWTOs and tutorials

This page contains documentation submitted by users about how to do interesting things with VirtualBox. Contributions (including corrections and enhancements to existing tutorials) are always welcome, and may be submitted to the vbox-users mailing list.

Please note that Sun is not the author of the following documents and cannot be held responsible for any problems arising from following the instructions contained in them.

Setup Networking

• ​Converting IDE images to SATA images by Harry Jacobson (VirtualBox forums)

• Advanced networking for Linux
  by Jean-Jacques Sarton

• Hosting a VM using a different subnet
  by the VirtualBox team

• Setting up OpenVPN between VirtualBox guests and hosts
  by Tim Day

• Setup networking via a PPP tunnel (Linux guest/host)
  by Pedro Zorzenon Neto

• ​Host Interface Networking between two Ubuntu VMs on a Vista host
  by Gaurav Verma

• ​Internal Networking between two Ubuntu VMs on a Vista host
  by Gaurav Verma

• ​Migrating from VMware: NAT considerations for Linux guests
  by Gaurav Verma

• Tutorial: creating testbed networks of virtual machines, host Windows XP, guest Redhat Enterprise Linux
  by Gary Griffin

• Sharing files between guest and host without VirtualBox shared folders
  by Jean-Jacques Sarton

• Sharing files between a DOS guest and the host
  by ghr

Installation

• Setting up USB on Ubuntu 7.04
  by Ibrahim Ben Faruhn

• Setting up USB with udev on Fedora 6
  by Andre Srinivasan

• Howto setup a jail running VBox
  by Amit Gurdasani

• How to enable logging for the .MSI host installer of VirtualBox
  by the VirtualBox team

Other

• How to provide a core dump (helps debugging on Linux hosts)
  by the VirtualBox team

• Howto migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox
  by the VirtualBox team