Contents

9.10 Configuring Custom ACPI Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

9.11 Fine Tuning Timers and Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
9.11.1 Configuring the Guest Time Stamp Counter (TSC) to Reflect Guest
Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
9.11.2 Accelerate or Slow Down the Guest Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
9.11.3 Tuning the Guest Additions Time Synchronization Parameters . . . . . 260
9.11.4 Disabling the Guest Additions Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . 260
9.12 Installing the Alternate Bridged Networking Driver on Oracle Solaris 11 Hosts . 261
9.13 Oracle VM VirtualBox VNIC Templates for VLANs on Oracle Solaris 11 Hosts . . 261
9.14 Configuring Multiple Host-Only Network Interfaces on Oracle Solaris Hosts . . . 262
9.15 Configuring the Oracle VM VirtualBox CoreDumper on Oracle Solaris Hosts . . . 262
9.16 Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
9.17 Locking Down the Oracle VM VirtualBox GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
9.17.1 Customizing the VirtualBox Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
9.17.2 VM Selector Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
9.17.3 Configure VM Selector Menu Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
9.17.4 Configure VM Window Menu Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
9.17.5 Configure VM Window Status Bar Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
9.17.6 Configure VM Window Visual Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
9.17.7 Host Key Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
9.17.8 Action when Terminating the VM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
9.17.9 Default Action when Terminating the VM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
9.17.10 Action for Handling a Guru Meditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
9.17.11 Configuring Automatic Mouse Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
9.17.12 Requesting Legacy Full-Screen Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
9.17.13 Removing Certain Modes of Networking From the GUI . . . . . . . . . 278
9.18 Starting the Oracle VM VirtualBox Web Service Automatically . . . . . . . . . . 279
9.18.1 Linux: Starting the Web Service With init . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
9.18.2 Oracle Solaris: Starting the Web Service With SMF . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
9.18.3 Mac OS X: Starting the Web Service With launchd . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
9.19 Oracle VM VirtualBox Watchdog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
9.19.1 Memory Ballooning Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
9.19.2 Host Isolation Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
9.19.3 More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
9.19.4 Linux: Starting the Watchdog Service With init . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
9.19.5 Oracle Solaris: Starting the Watchdog Service With SMF . . . . . . . . 283
9.20 Other Extension Packs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
9.21 Starting Virtual Machines During System Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
9.21.1 Linux: Starting the Autostart Service With init . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
9.21.2 Oracle Solaris: Starting the Autostart Service With SMF . . . . . . . . . 285
9.21.3 Mac OS X: Starting the Autostart Service With launchd . . . . . . . . . 285
9.21.4 Windows: Starting the Autostart Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
9.22 Oracle VM VirtualBox Expert Storage Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
9.23 Handling of Host Power Management Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
9.24 Passing Through SSE4.1/SSE4.2 Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
9.25 Support for Keyboard Indicator Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
9.26 Capturing USB Traffic for Selected Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
9.27 Configuring the Heartbeat Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
9.28 Encryption of Disk Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
9.28.1 Limitations of Disk Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
9.28.2 Encrypting Disk Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
9.28.3 Starting a VM with Encrypted Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
9.28.4 Decrypting Encrypted Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290