Technical documentation

This section targets people who wish to know more about how VirtualBox works inside, including software developers that either wish to incorporate VirtualBox into their products by programming its APIs or learn about it in order to contribute to its development, or users who want to investigate a problem with VirtualBox in greater depth. (If you are only looking for information on how to download and run VirtualBox, see the End-user documentation page instead.)

Getting started:

• The ​SDK Programming Guide of the current VirtualBox release (API reference)
• Build instructions
• Binaries overview
• Source code organization
• VirtualBox architecture
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for developers

Development:

• The VirtualBox/IPRT logging facility
• Debug logging of VBoxSVC and Qt GUI
• Porting VirtualBox to a new platform
• Notes from cross-building the Solaris Additions on Linux

Debugging:

• Investigating shared clipboard problems on X11 guests or hosts

Miscellaneous:

• Translating VirtualBox (I18N)
• How to provide a core dump
• Some helpful network tips