[Todo] Some features are not documented

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[Todo] Some features are not documented

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1) Paravirtualization
2) Virtual USB hard disks
3) VM encryption requires Extension Pack to be installed
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Re: No documentation on the "Paravirtualization Interface"op

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VirtualBox added some host-side features of KVM and Hyper V (for Linux guests and Windows guests, respectively). Note this only covers clocks/timers, for better precision time in virtual machines.

This is not full-scale PV. (no VirtIO-block device hard disk for example), but nice thing.
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Re: No documentation on the "Paravirtualization Interface"op

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In general, we are aware that the documentation is far from being complete. Nevertheless it makes sense to list missing items. Perhaps reuse this topic for enumerating features which lack of documentation.
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Re: [Todo] Some features not documented

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+ Virtual USB hard disks.
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5.0 fixed the green screen video capture problem on Linux hosts.
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Re: [Todo] Some features are not documented

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+ VM encryption requires Extension Pack to be installed.
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