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1 First steps
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Remote machine display.
You can run any virtual machine in a special
VirtualBox program that acts as a server for the VirtualBox Remote Desktop Pro-
tocol (VRDP), a backward-compatible extension of the standard Remote Desk-
top Protocol. With this unique feature, VirtualBox provides high-performance
remote access to any virtual machine.
VirtualBox’s VRDP support does not rely on the RDP server that is built into
Microsoft Windows. Instead, a custom VRDP server has been built directly into
the virtualization layer. As a result, it works with any operating system (even
in text mode) and does not require application support in the virtual machine
either.
VRDP support is described in detail in chapter
, page
On top of this special capacity, VirtualBox offers you more unique features:
– Extensible RDP authentication. VirtualBox already supports Winlogon
on Windows and PAM on Linux for RDP authentication. In addition, it
includes an easy-to-use SDK which allows you to create arbitrary interfaces
for other methods of authentication; see chapter
, page
for details.
– USB over RDP. Via RDP virtual channel support, VirtualBox also allows
you to connect arbitrary USB devices locally to a virtual machine which is
running remotely on a VirtualBox RDP server; see chapter
, page
for details.
1.4 Supported host operating systems
Currently, VirtualBox runs on the following host operating systems:
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Windows hosts:
– Windows XP, all service packs (32-bit)
– Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)
– Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit
1
).
– Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
– Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
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Mac OS X hosts:
2
– 10.5 (Leopard, 32-bit)
1
Support for 64-bit Windows was added with VirtualBox 1.5.
2
Preliminary Mac OS X support (beta stage) was added with VirtualBox 1.4, full support with 1.6. Mac OS
X 10.4 (Tiger) support was removed with VirtualBox 3.1.
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