4.1. Introduction As mentioned in, the Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed. They consist of device drivers and system applications that optimize the guest operating system for better performance and usability. Please see for details on what guest operating systems are fully supported with Guest Additions by VirtualBox.

The VirtualBox Guest Additions for all supported guest operating systems are provided as a single CD-ROM image file which is called VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. This image file is located in the installation directory of VirtualBox. To install the Guest Additions for a particular VM, you mount this ISO file in your VM as a virtual CD-ROM and install from there. Skyrim Crossbow Download. The Guest Additions offer the following features. Mouse pointer integration To overcome the limitations for mouse support that were described in, this provides you with seamless mouse support. You will only have one mouse pointer and pressing the Host key is no longer required to 'free' the mouse from being captured by the guest OS.

To make this work, a special mouse driver is installed in the guest that communicates with the 'real' mouse driver on your host and moves the guest mouse pointer accordingly. Shared folders These provide an easy way to exchange files between the host and the guest. Much like ordinary Windows network shares, you can tell VirtualBox to treat a certain host directory as a shared folder, and VirtualBox will make it available to the guest operating system as a network share, irrespective of whether guest actually has a network. For details, please refer to. Better video support While the virtual graphics card which VirtualBox emulates for any guest operating system provides all the basic features, the custom video drivers that are installed with the Guest Additions provide you with extra high and non-standard video modes as well as accelerated video performance. In addition, with Windows, Linux and Solaris guests, you can resize the virtual machine's window if the Guest Additions are installed.

The video resolution in the guest will be automatically adjusted (as if you had manually entered an arbitrary resolution in the guest's display settings). Please see also. Finally, if the Guest Additions are installed, 3D graphics and 2D video for guest applications can be accelerated; see. Seamless windows With this feature, the individual windows that are displayed on the desktop of the virtual machine can be mapped on the host's desktop, as if the underlying application was actually running on the host. See for details. Generic host/guest communication channels The Guest Additions enable you to control and monitor guest execution in ways other than those mentioned above. The so-called 'guest properties' provide a generic string-based mechanism to exchange data bits between a guest and a host, some of which have special meanings for controlling and monitoring the guest; see for details.

Jan 10, 2017 - 14 min - Uploaded by SaltyPeanutThanks for watching! VirtualBox Link: WinRAR Link: http://www. I have never realized how difficult it is to find the download page for the VirtualBox Guest additions, it is not accessible from the wiki, at this time. After some time spent on Google, here is the answer: If you need to download an ISO image of VirtualBox Guest Additions, go to: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/.