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<h1>VirtualBox hypervisor driver</h1>
<p>
The libvirt VirtualBox driver can manage any VirtualBox version
from version 2.2 onwards.
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<h2>Connections to VirtualBox driver</h2>
<p>
The libvirt VirtualBox driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance).
The uri of the driver protocol is "vbox". Some example connection URIs for the driver are:
</p>
<pre>
vbox:///session (local access to per-user instance)
vbox+unix:///session (local access to per-user instance)
vbox+tcp://user@example.com/session (remote access, SASl/Kerberos)
vbox+ssh://user@example.com/session (remote access, SSH tunnelled)
</pre>
<h2>
<a name="xmlconfig" id="xmlconfig">Example domain XML config</a>
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<pre>
<domain type='vbox'>
<name>vbox</name>
<uuid>4dab22b31d52d8f32516782e98ab3fa0</uuid>
<os>
<type>hvm</type>
<boot dev='cdrom'/>
<boot dev='hd'/>
<boot dev='fd'/>
<boot dev='network'/>
</os>
<memory>654321</memory>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<features>
<pae/>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
</features>
<devices>
<disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
<source file='/home/user/Downloads/slax-6.0.9.iso'/>
<target dev='hdc'/>
<readonly/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<source file='/home/user/tmp/vbox.vdi'/>
<target dev='hdd'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='floppy'>
<source file='/home/user/tmp/WIN98C.IMG'/>
<target dev='fda'/>
</disk>
<!--BRIDGE-->
<interface type='bridge'>
<source bridge='eth0'/>
<mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>
<model type='am79c973'/>
</interface>
<!--NAT-->
<interface type='user'>
<mac address='56:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/>
<model type='82540eM'/>
</interface>
<sound model='sb16'/>
<parallel type='dev'>
<source path='/dev/pts/1'/>
<target port='0'/>
</parallel>
<parallel type='dev'>
<source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
<target port='1'/>
</parallel>
<serial type="dev">
<source path="/dev/ttyS0"/>
<target port="0"/>
</serial>
<serial type="pipe">
<source path="/tmp/serial.txt"/>
<target port="1"/>
</serial>
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
<source>
<vendor id='0x1234'/>
<product id='0xbeef'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb'>
<source>
<vendor id='0x4321'/>
<product id='0xfeeb'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
</devices>
</domain>
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