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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
<topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vboxconfigdata-global">
<title>Global Settings</title>
<body>
<p>
In addition to the files for the virtual machines,
<ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> maintains global configuration data in the
following directory:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><b outputclass="bold">Linux and Oracle Solaris:</b><filepath>$HOME/.config/VirtualBox</filepath>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b outputclass="bold">Windows:</b><filepath>$HOME/.VirtualBox</filepath>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><b outputclass="bold">macOS:</b><filepath>$HOME/Library/VirtualBox</filepath>.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> creates this configuration directory
automatically, if necessary. You can specify an alternate
configuration directory by either setting the
<codeph>VBOX_USER_HOME</codeph> environment variable, or on
Linux or Oracle Solaris by using the standard
<codeph>XDG_CONFIG_HOME</codeph> variable. Since the global
<filepath>VirtualBox.xml</filepath> settings file points to all
other configuration files, this enables switching between
several <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> configurations.
</p>
<p>
In this configuration directory, <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> stores its
global settings file, an XML file called
<filepath>VirtualBox.xml</filepath>. This file includes global
configuration options and a list of registered virtual machines
with pointers to their XML settings files.
</p>
</body>
</topic>
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