15 Starting the VirtualBox web service automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 10 Technical background 148 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 152. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

16 Starting the VirtualBox web service automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Technical background 153 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 157. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

the VirtualBox web service automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 5 Contents 10 Technical background 151 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 155. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

16 Starting the VirtualBox web service automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 10 Technical background 152 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 156. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

20 Memory Ballooning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 10 Technical background 161 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 165. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

20 Memory Ballooning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 10 Technical background 165 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 169. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

17 Memory Ballooning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Technical background 154 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 158. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

17 Memory Ballooning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10 Technical background 154 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 158. • Guest OS X Server guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

177 9.24.3 Mac OS X: starting the autostart service via launchd . . . . . . . . . . . 178 10 Technical background 179 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 183. • Guest install a Mac OS X guest: 1. Mac OS X is commercial, licensed software and contains both license and technical re- strictions that limit its use to certain hardware and usage scenarios. It is important that

214 9.31.4 Decrypting encrypted images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 10 Technical background 216 10.1 Where VirtualBox stores its files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you can therefore use VirtualBox even on older hardware where these features are not present. The technical details are explained in chapter 10.3, Hardware vs. software virtualization, page 220. • Guest will go through the host again, so that sequences like Alt-Tab will no longer reach the guest. For technical reasons it may not be possible for the VM to get all keyboard input even when it does own the keyboard