In recent years, there have been several virtualization products introduced on the market; nonetheless, there has been one, in particular, that has stood out from the crowd for being rich in features and providing high-performance: Oracle VM VirtualBox. This app can allow you to running multiple operating systems simultaneously and enables you to run more than one OS at a time. Then, you can run software written for one OS on another, such as Windows software on Linux or a Mac, without having to reboot to use it.
Lucky you, at this time we will learn everything about this app. Especially about VirtualBox Guest Additions, one of the best features of this app. Let’s check it out.
What Is 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. The Guest Additions offer the.
Often referred to as the best virtual machine, VirtualBox is a powerful AMD64/Intel64 and x86 virtualization creation for both home and enterprise use. For the time being, VirtualBox is the only professional solution available freely as Open Source Software, which is one of the top reasons why its popularity has skyrocketed and thus several releases of it have taken place.
VirtualBox has been established with great community effort and is back by a company that is very dedicated to providing a first-class service in every aspect. It is downloaded in record numbers every day. It is currently the top Windows 10 virtual machine, and it does not seem this is going to change anytime soon.
Virtualbox Guest Additions
The VirtualBox Guest Additions consist of device drivers and system applications that optimize the operating system for better performance and usability. One of the usability features required in this guide is automated logons, which is why you need to install the Guest Additions in the virtual machine. For a Windows 7 desktop template, you also enable Windows media redirection for enhanced playback of multimedia content played in Windows Media Player (including content displayed in Internet Explorer).
To accessing this option In the Window containing the running virtual machine, select Install Guest Additions from the Devices menu. And the AutoPlay to run this guest additions will prompt.
Download VirtualBox
Before we providing you an installer files of virtualbox guest additions, please download the master of virtualbox installation file on below if you don’t have it. On this page you will find the last version of virtualbox for windows/mac/linux, and the old version of virtualbox.
VirtualBox for Windows
On below you will find the installation file of VirtualBox for Windows 10 64 bit and 32 bit. This executable file is also compatible for windows 7 and windows 8 version.
File Name | Version | Last Update | File Size |
(Open the link to download) | |||
VirtualBox-6.0.4-128413-Win.exe | 6.0 | 28-Jan-2019 | 23 MB |
VirtualBox-5.2.26-128414-Win.exe | 5.2 | 28-Jan-2019 | 110 MB |
VirtualBox-5.1.38-122592-Win.exe | 5.1 | 09-May-2018 | 119 MB |
VirtualBox-5.0.40-115130-Win.exe | 5.0 | 28-Apr-2017 | 109 MB |
VirtualBox-4.3.40-110317-Win.exe | 4.3 | 22-Aug-2016 | 99 MB |
VirtualBox-4.2.38-110681-Win.exe | 4.2 | 14-Sep-2016 | 102 MB |
VirtualBox-4.1.44-104071-Win.exe | 4.1 | 11-Nov-2015 | 98 MB |
VirtualBox-4.0.36-104075-Win.exe | 4.0 | 11-Nov-2015 | 88 MB |
VirtualBox for MAC
File Name | Version | Last Update | File Size |
(Open the link to download) | |||
VirtualBox-6.0.4-128413-OSX.dmg | 6.0 | 28-Jan-2019 | 158 MB |
VirtualBox-5.2.26-128414-OSX.dmg | 5.2 | 28-Jan-2019 | 92 MB |
VirtualBox-5.1.38-122592-OSX.dmg | 5.1 | 09-May-2018 | 91 MB |
VirtualBox-5.0.40-115130-OSX.dmg | 5.0 | 28-Apr-2017 | 87 MB |
VirtualBox-4.3.40-110317-OSX.dmg | 4.3 | 22-Aug-2016 | 104 MB |
VirtualBox-4.2.38-110681-OSX.dmg | 4.2 | 14-Sep-2016 | 108 MB |
VirtualBox-4.1.44-104071-OSX.dmg | 4.1 | 11-Nov-2015 | 99 MB |
VirtualBox-4.0.36-104075-OSX.dmg | 4.0 | 11-Nov-2015 | 87 MB |
VirtualBox for Linux
Please choose the installation file that fit with your Linux OS
File Name | Version | OS | File Size |
(Open the link to download) | |||
virtualbox-6.0_6.0.4-128413~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb | 6.0 | Ubuntu | 124 MB |
virtualbox-6.0_6.0.4-128413~Debian~jessie_amd64.deb | 6.0 | Debian | 130 MB |
VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.4_128413_openSUSE132-1.x86_64.rpm | 6.0 | Open Suse | 130 MB |
VirtualBox-6.0.4-128413-Linux_amd64.run | 6.0 | Linux | 148 MB |
VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.4_128413_fedora26-1.x86_64.rpm | 6.0 | Fedora | 130 MB |
VirtualBox-6.0.4-128413-SunOS.tar.gz | 6.0 | SunOS | 159 MB |
Download Virtualbox Guest Additions
We have never realized how difficult it is to find the VirtualBox Guest additions download page. It is not accessible from the wiki. But, at this time… After some time spent on Google, we collect some vBoxGuestAdditions installation file with many version. This link will directly download the offline installer .iso from the official website. So, it’s secure and free from malware. Here is the answer:
File Name | Version | Last Update | File Size |
(Open the link to download) | |||
VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.4.iso | 6.0 | 28-Jan-2019 | 82 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.26.iso | 5.2 | 28-Jan-2019 | 56 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.38.iso | 5.1 | 09-May-2018 | 57 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.40.iso | 5.0 | 28-Apr-2017 | 56 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.40.iso | 4.3 | 22-Aug-2016 | 55 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.38.iso | 4.2 | 14-Sep-2016 | 59 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.44.iso | 4.1 | 11-Nov-2015 | 52 MB |
VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.36.iso | 4.0 | 11-Nov-2015 | 46 MB |
How To Install VirtualBox on Windows 10
- At first, you must Download VirtualBox from the link on above
- Begin installation when prompted on screen
- Customize setup or click on ‘default’
- Click on the features you want to install or click on ‘default’
- Setup network interface
- Click on ‘continue’ to begin the installation process
- Then, launch VirtualBox
- Now your Virtual Machine is ready
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
This guest additions installation step applies only on a GUI-less server. If you need to installing this features with the full GUI mode then jump to method 2
Method 1: Install from Terminal
- First, Start your VirtualBox.
- Then, start the host in question.
- Once the host has booted, click Devices | Insert Guest Additions CD Image.
- After that, Log in to your guest server.
- Mount the CD-ROM with the command
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom.
- Change into the mounted directory with the command
cd /media/cdrom.
- Install the necessary dependencies with the command
sudo apt-get install -y dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r).
- Change to the root user with the command
sudo su.
- Install the Guest Additions package with the command
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run.
- Please Allow the installation to complete.
- Now, You will see an error stating that the installer couldn’t find the X.Org or XFree86 Window System—that’s okay, because it doesn’t exist on this host.
- For the last, Reboot your machine, and the Guest Additions will be working.
You should see a bit of a performance increase, as well as the extra features (shared clipboard, shared folders, and more) awarded by this installation.
Method 2: Install from GUI Mode
- In the Window containing the running virtual machine, select Install Guest Additions from the Devices menu.
- When the AutoPlay window is displayed (prompting you to run the VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe program), close the window without installing the Guest Additions. Closing the window leaves the ISO image used to install the Guest Additions inserted in the virtual CD/DVD drive. You need to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions from the command line to get all the features we need.
- In the virtual machine, on the Windows Start menu, type run in the search field and press Return. The Run dialog is displayed. Enter
D:VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe/with_autologon/with_vboxmmr
in the Open field. - Press the Return key. If you are preparing a Windows XP desktop template, you can omit the
/with_vboxmmr
command line switch. - When you are prompted, click Yes to install the Guest Additions. The VirtualBox Guest Additions Setup wizard is displayed in a new window.
- Click the Next button to move though the various steps of the wizard. Accept all the default
settings and then click Install to install the Guest Additions. If a Windows Security dialog is displayed that prompts you to install device software.(see the screenshoot for an example), click Install. - When the Guest Additions installation is complete, ensure Reboot now is selected and click Finish.
- The VirtualBox Guest Additions Setup wizard closes and the virtual machine is rebooted.
- When the virtual machine reboots, log in.
Next, for the last step you will need perform some additional configuration in the virtual machine. For the best setting please refer to this configuration that described on: “Additional Virtual Machine Preparation”.
Conclusions: VirtualBox: The Go-to Virtualization Option
As you can conclude, the VirtualBox Windows 10 download is very simple to implement. There is not much to it. The process itself only takes a few minutes to complete, as the download comes accompanied by instructions that are very simple to follow. Numerous people around the globe are currently taking advantage of VirtualBox. Go ahead and download it so that you can put it to good use and thus also benefit from it. It is a well-structured program that has caused a positive buzz thatseems to become muchlouder every day.
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This tutorial will show you how to install VirtualBox guest additions in Fedora. Before you follow the steps in this tutorial, you need to have a Fedora guest OS installed inside VirtualBox. The type of OS on the host doesn’t matter.
VirtualBox Guest Additions offer the following features:
- Enable users to seamlessly move mouse pointer between host and guest. Users don’t have to press the Host key (right Ctrl) to free the mouse pointer from being captured by the guest OS.
- Enable the guest OS to have read and write access to a folder on the host OS.
- Power up the graphics ability of your guest machine. The screen resolution of guest can be automatically adjusted and 3D graphics can be accelerated. This is a must have for the unity desktop of Ubuntu.
- Enable bidirectional shared clipboard between host and guest.
Basic Idea Behind Installing Guest Additions
The guest additions are a set of device drivers (graphics and mouse drivers) and system applications that is going to be installed in the guest OS. One of them is a VirtualBox kernel module. This kernel module must be compiled in the guest OS.
So the installing process is as follows:
- Install development tools on the guest OS to enable us to compile kernel module.
- Download the guest addition ISO file on the host and insert it to the guest’s virtual CD-ROM drive
- Compile and install it on the guest OS.
Q & A
1. Why Do I need to compile VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel module?
The binary compatibility of kernel module depends on the API of Linux Kernel. Since the API of each version of Linux kernel might be different, it’s better to compile the kernel module rather than providing a bog-standard kernel module binary.
2. Why can’t I just download guest additions onto the hard disk of guest machine and compile it?
The VirtualBox Guest Additions are provided as a single CD-ROM image file which is called VBoxGuestAdditions.iso.
Step 1: Prepare Fedora Guest System for Compiling software
Fully update Fedora guest.
Install DKMS, GNU C compiler, kernel-headers and kernel-devel. They are required if you compile Linux kernel modules. dkms enables automatic re-compiling when a new kernel is installed.
Reboot Fedora guest.
Step 2: Insert Virtualbox Guest Additions ISO file to Virtual CD-ROM Drive
In the VirtualBox window, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image.
A window will pop-up asking if you want to run the VirtualBox Guest Additions installer, click Run button.
Some version of VirtualBox may prompt you to download the VirtualBox Guest additions ISO. In my case, my VirtualBox comes with an ISO file already.
Then enter your password and the compilation and installation process will begin.
The status must be
[OK]
indicating the installation is successful. Restart Fedora guest machine. Now the screen resolution will adjust with the window size and you can go full screen mode and set up shared folders.You may need to manually adjust screen resolution if the default value is low.
The above method also works on Fedora-based Linux distributions like Network Security Toolkit.
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