2004-2010 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . . . . . . 3.1.2 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 3.3 General settings . . . . . . . . . . 77 4.5 Hardware-accelerated video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 4.5.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . 78 4.5.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2011 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.3 General settings . 64 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2011 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.3 General settings . 64 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2010 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.3 General settings . 65 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 65 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2010 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.3 General settings . 63 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 63 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2012 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 10 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3.3 General settings . 67 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 67 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2011 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 3.3 General settings . 65 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 65 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2015 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.3 General settings . 64 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2015 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 9 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3.3 General settings . 64 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 64 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration

2004-2012 Oracle Corporation http://www.virtualbox.org Contents 1 First steps 10 1.1 Why is virtualization useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.2 Some terminology . 64-bit guests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.2 Emulated hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 3.3 General settings . 68 4.4 Hardware-accelerated graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.4.1 Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) . . . . . . . . . 68 4.4.2 Hardware 2D video acceleration