VirtualBox hypervisor driver

The libvirt VirtualBox driver can manage any VirtualBox version from version 2.2 onwards.

Connections to VirtualBox driver

The libvirt VirtualBox driver provides per-user drivers (the "session" instance). The uri of the driver protocol is "vbox". Some example conection URIs for the driver are: 

    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)

Example domain XML config 

    <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>

        <!--INTERNAL NETWORK
        <interface type='internal'>
            <source name='int_net'/>
            <model type='am79c970a'/>
        </interface> -->

        <!--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>

        <!-- HOST ONLY NETWORK
        <interface type='hostonly'>
            <source name='vboxnet0'/>
            <mac address='78:16:3e:4d:c7:9e'/>
            <model type='82543gc'/>
        </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>

        <!-- VRDP Support
        <graphics type='rdp' port='3389' auth='guest' reuseconnection='yes'
        multiconnections='yes' authtimeout='4999' listen='10.16.203.214'/> -->

        <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>