Advanced Settings

Introduction

Advanced settings that do not appear in the !VirtualBox GUI have been added to phpVirtualBox. These can be enabled by setting or adding:

var $enableAdvancedConfig = true;

in config.php.

NOTE: though the following sections reference VBoxManage (a command line tool distributed with !VirtualBox), phpVirtualBox does not use VBoxManage to perform these actions. VBoxManage equivalent commands are provided for documentation reference only.

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Contents

• Input Tab
• HPET and Host time sync
• Acceleration
• VRDE Net Address
• Additional NAT Settings
• Media Selection has a Virtual Media Manager button
• Virtual Media Manager additional buttons
  • New
  • Add
  • Add iSCSI

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Input Tab

An Input tab is available in the General section of Virtual Machines' settings windows.

Label	VBoxManage equivalent
Keyboard	VBoxManage modifyvm --keyboard
Mouse	VBoxManage modifyvm --mouse

See the VBoxManage documentation at http://www.virtualbox.org for more information on these settings.

HPET and Host time sync

An HPET (High Precision Event Timer) setting is available in the System section on the Motherboard tab of Virtual Machines' settings windows.

A Disable host time sync option is available to disable time synchronization between the !VirtualBox host and the virtual machine.

Label	VBoxManage equivalent
HPET (high precision event timer)	VBoxManage modifyvm --hpet
Disable host time sync	VBoxManage setextradata "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" "1"

See the VBoxManage documentation at http://www.virtualbox.org for more information on these settings.

Acceleration

Acceleration settings are available in the System section on the Acceleration tab of Virtual Machines' settings windows.

Label	VBoxManage equivalent
Enable VT-x/AMD-V	VBoxManage modifyvm --hwvirtex
Enable Nested Paging	VBoxManage modifyvm --nestedpaging
Enable Large Pages	VBoxManage modifyvm --largepages
Enable exclusive use of the hardware virtualization extensions	VBoxManage modifyvm --hwvirtexexcl
Enable VT-x VPID (Intel only)	VBoxManage modifyvm --vtxvpid

See the VBoxManage documentation at http://www.virtualbox.org for more information on these settings.

VRDE Net Address

A Net Address setting is available in the Display section on the Remote Display tab of Virtual Machines' settings windows.

Label	VBoxManage equivalent
Net Address	VBoxManage modifyvm --vrdeaddress

See the VBoxManage documentation at http://www.virtualbox.org for more information on these settings.

Additional NAT Settings

Additional NAT settings are available in the Network section of Virtual Machines' settings windows when a network adapter's Attached To setting is configured as NAT.

Label	VBoxManage equivalent
Proxy Only	VBoxManage modifyvm --nataliasmode
Same Ports	VBoxManage modifyvm --nataliasmode
Pass DNS Domain	VBoxManage modifyvm --natdnspassdomain
DNS Proxy	VBoxManage modifyvm --natdnsproxy
Use Host Resolver	VBoxManage modifyvm --natdnshostresolver
Bind to IP	VBoxManage modifyvm --natbindip

See the VBoxManage documentation at http://www.virtualbox.org for more information on these settings.

Media Selection has a Virtual Media Manager button

All media selection buttons have a Virtual Media Manager button that will allow direct access to the Virtual Media Manager.

Virtual Media Manager additional buttons

The Virtual Media Manager has additional buttons that will allow you to perform additional actions.

New

Opens the New Hard Disk wizard

Add

Allows you to add existing media to the global media registry

Add iSCSI

Allows you to add an iSCSI disk to the global media registry

The following options are available when adding an iSCSI disk:

Label	VBoxManage equivalent
Server	VBoxManage storageattach --server
Port	VBoxManage storageattach --port
Internal Networking	VBoxManage storageattach --intnet
Target	VBoxManage storageattach --target
LUN	VBoxManage storageattach --lun
Encoded	VBoxManage storageattach --encodedlun
Username	VBoxManage storageattach --username
Password	VBoxManage storageattach --password

See the VBoxManage documentation at http://www.virtualbox.org for more information on these settings.