If not, right-click on VBoxWindowsAdditions and select Run as administrator. When you double-click the CD drive, the installer may start automatically. Go to My Computer (This PC in Windows 10) and open the Guest Additions CD drive under the Devices and drivers section. We can install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Windows 10 by performing these steps:Īccess the virtual machine's menu and go to devices and click: 'Install Guest Additions CD Image…'. The features enabled by Guest Additions are: correct screen resolution, mouse pointer integration, seamless windows, time synchronization, shared folders, and shared clipboard. When you first install Windows 10 in Oracle VM VirtualBox, some advanced features won't be enabled (as well as correct screen resolution) without guest additions. The following guide explains how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Windows 10 Virtual Machine. And it got me thinking why aren't ISO's talked about more around here? Everyone supposedly runs a Windows VM, but no one talks about the very foundation of a virtual OS, its installer (ISO).How to Install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Windows 10

I've been looking into things like Tiny10/11, and tools like NTLite. I mainly just want something super slick, free of as much bloat as necessary (without crippling too much normal functionality), to have some to spool up when I can't run a Windows app on my Mac, want to run something I can't from the work machine, or just generally want to leave something running overnight. Ultimately this isn't intended to be a gaming VM (no dGPU to passthrough), or even a daily driver. I just downloaded the latest ISO from Microsoft direct, but now I'm looking into tuning my VM more. I've just dipped my toes into running a Win10 VM on my Unraid box, remotely using it via RDP.

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