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How To Install VirtualBox Guest Additions On Windows

Hello friends, welcome back to our Web Blog Ceflox.com. Virtualization is a very helpful thing in our daily lives, including if we want to create a virtual operating system. On this occasion we will share about the VirtualBox Tutorial for Beginners, which discusses the How To Install VirtualBox Guest Additions On Windows.

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows

Table Of Contents

  • What is Virtualbox and Virtualization
  • Install VirtualBox Guest Additions

If in the discussion in the previous article we were introduced to what is VirtualBox Guest Additions, then on this occasion we will discuss how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows.

What is VirtualBox Guest Additions

What is Virtualbox and Virtualization

VirtualBox Guest Additions are additional tools or drivers provided by VirtualBox which have functions, among others, features shared folders, shared clipboards, mouse integration, increasing graphic quality, drag n drop and many others.

VirtualBox has provided VirtualBox Guest Additions with an ISO image file known as "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso", and later during installation the file will be extracted and then installed. All right, let's go straight to the installation process.

How To Install VirtualBox Guest Additions On Windows

Before installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows, make sure your friends have installed the Windows Operating System on VirtualBox.

1. Run the Operating System in VirtualBox

Make sure that the operating system that will be installed VirtualBox Guest Additions is already in VirtualBox, so that we can directly install the VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Start the virtual machine to be precise on Windows, if so, please wait until the boot is complete. The next step is to enter the Guest Additions Image.

install vbox guest di windows 7

2. Insert Guest Additions Image

The next step is to insert or enter the Guest Additions Image CD, the method is to click Devices >> Insert Guest Additions CD Image, or friends can see the picture below:

Insert Guest Additions CD Image

If so, please wait a few moments until the auto run pop up appears from the windows. Like the picture below.

Auto run Guest Additions CD Image

If it doesn't appear like the picture above, then friends can open it manually by opening itwindows explorer, then select CD Drive (D:) Virtualbox Guest Additions Image. Like the picture below

Open Windows Explorer

Run VBox Guest

If so, double click on CD Drive (D:) Virtualbox Guest Additions Image.

3. Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Image

The next stage, when the Virtualbox Guest Additions Image has been detected and has been clicked 2 times, then the next stage is the installation.

If you have clicked it twice, or run it, it will appear on our windows like this, then select it YES

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Image

Next there will be a Welcome display from the Oracle VBox Guest, and just click NEXT.

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Image 1

If so, next, we will be instructed to choose the installation location for VBox Guest, here just leave the default then NEXT.

VBox Select Destination Install

If so, we will select the components to be installed, here I select all, or check all, then click install.

Choose Component Install VBox Guest

Next, namely, there is a question, are we going to install software on our devices, here I checklist to always allow and then click INSTALL.

Install Software VBox to Device

If so, please wait until the installation is complete.

Process VirtualBox Guest Additions

After completing the installation, we are advised to restart our windows, if so, just select Reboot Now, and Finish.

Finish Install VirtualBox Guest Additions

If before installing VirtualBox Guest Additions, the windows display is on Virtualbox is not fullscreen. But after the installation is complete VirtualBox Guest Additions, the appearance of our windows desktop follows the scale according to what we set, as shown below is a feature after Finish Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Select Desktop Scale

Apart from that, several other features have been unlocked after we installed VirtualBox Guest Additions, the example below is the Shared Clipboard, here we can copy and paste from the Original OS into the Virtual OS without FTP. So make it easier for us.

Shared Clipboard VboxGuest

Alright friends, that's enough for the Linux Learning Tutorial for Beginners, Understanding VirtualBox and How to Download Virtualbox. How To Install VirtualBox Guest Additions On Windows  I hope this tutorial is useful for all of us.  

That is all and thank you.

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