= 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 [wiki:"Mailing_lists" 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 ===

 * [http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=7115 Converting IDE images to SATA images][[BR]] by Harry Jacobson (!VirtualBox forums)

 * [wiki:"Advanced_Networking_Linux" Advanced networking for Linux][[BR]] by Jean-Jacques Sarton

 * [wiki:"VM_Subnet" Hosting a VM using a dedicated subnet][[BR]] by the !VirtualBox team

 * [wiki:"OpenVPN_on_VBox" Setting up OpenVPN between VirtualBox guests and hosts] [[BR]] by Tim Day

 * [wiki:"PPP_Tunnel" Setup networking via a PPP tunnel (Linux guest/host)] [[BR]] by Pedro Zorzenon Neto

 * [http://opensourceexperiments.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/virtualbox-case-study-making-host-only-networking-work-between-two-ubuntu-guest-os-virtual-machine-on-windows-vista-host/ Host Interface Networking between two Ubuntu VMs on a Vista host] [[BR]] by Gaurav Verma

 * [http://opensourceexperiments.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/case-study-configuring-internal-networking-work-for-talking-two-linux-guest-os-ubuntu-on-windows-vista-host/ Internal Networking between two Ubuntu VMs on a Vista host] [[BR]] by Gaurav Verma

 * [http://opensourceexperiments.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/making-virtualbox-networking-work-with-suse-linux-as-guest-os-windows-host/ Migrating from VMware: NAT considerations for Linux guests] [[BR]] by Gaurav Verma

 * [wiki:"Testing_Networks" Tutorial: creating testbed networks of virtual machines, host Windows XP, guest Redhat Enterprise Linux] [[BR]] by Gary Griffin

 * [wiki:"Sharing_files_on_OSE" Sharing files between guest and host without VirtualBox shared folders] [[BR]] by Jean-Jacques Sarton

 * [wiki:"Sharing_files_with_DOS" Sharing files between a DOS guest and the host] [[BR]] by ghr

=== Installation ===

 * [wiki:"USB_on_Ubuntu_7.04" Setting up USB on Ubuntu 7.04] [[BR]] by Ibrahim Ben Faruhn

 * [wiki:"USB_on_Fedora_6" Setting up USB with udev on Fedora 6] [[BR]] by Andre Srinivasan

 * [wiki:"Setup_Jail" Howto setup a jail running VBox] [[BR]] by Amit Gurdasani

 * [wiki:"MSI_Logging" How to enable logging for the .MSI host installer of VirtualBox] [[BR]] by the !VirtualBox team
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=== Migrating existing operating system installs (P2V) ===

 * [wiki:"Migrate_Windows" How to migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox] [[BR]] by Stephen !DeGabriele and the !VirtualBox team

=== Debugging ===

 * [wiki:"Core_dump" How to provide a core dump (helps debugging on Linux/Mac OS X/Solaris hosts)] [[BR]] by the !VirtualBox team

 * [wiki:"Network_tips" How to enable network packet tracing] [[BR]] by the !VirtualBox team

 * [wiki:"Serial_redirect" How to redirect the Linux guest kernel console to a serial port / file] [[BR]] by the !VirtualBox team

 * [wiki:"Windows_Kernel_Debugging" Windows Kernel Debugging Tips] [[BR]] by the !VirtualBox team