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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="mountingadditionsiso">
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| 4 | <title>Installing the Windows Guest Additions</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>In the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu in the virtual machine's menu bar, <ph
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| 8 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has a menu item <b outputclass="bold">Insert Guest Additions
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| 9 | CD Image</b>, which mounts the Guest Additions ISO file inside your virtual machine. A Windows guest should then
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| 10 | automatically start the Guest Additions installer, which installs the Guest Additions on your Windows guest. </p>
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| 11 | <p>For other guest operating systems, or if automatic start of software on a CD is disabled, you need to do a manual
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| 12 | start of the installer. </p>
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| 13 | <note>
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| 14 | <p>For the basic Direct3D acceleration to work in a Windows guest, you have to install the WDDM video driver
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| 15 | available for Windows Vista or later. </p>
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| 16 | <p>
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| 17 | For Windows 8 and later, only the WDDM Direct3D video driver
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| 18 | is available. For basic Direct3D acceleration to work in
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| 19 | Windows XP guests, you have to install the Guest Additions
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| 20 | in Safe Mode. See <xref href="KnownIssues.dita">Known Limitations</xref> for
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| 21 | details.
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| 22 | </p>
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| 23 | </note>
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| 24 | <p>If you prefer to mount the Guest Additions manually, you can perform the following steps: </p>
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| 25 | <ol>
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| 26 | <li>
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| 27 | <p>Start the virtual machine in which you have installed Windows. </p>
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| 28 | </li>
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| 29 | <li>
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| 30 | <p>Select <b outputclass="bold">Optical Drives</b> from the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu in the
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| 31 | virtual machine's menu bar and then <b outputclass="bold">Choose/Create a Disk Image</b>. This displays the
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| 32 | Virtual Media Manager, described in <xref href="virtual-media-manager.dita#virtual-media-manager"/>. </p>
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| 33 | </li>
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| 34 | <li>
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| 35 | <p>In the Virtual Media Manager, click <b outputclass="bold">Add</b> and browse your host file system for the
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| 36 | <filepath>VBoxGuestAdditions.iso</filepath> file. </p>
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| 37 | <ul>
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| 38 | <li>On a Windows host, this file is in the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> installation
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| 39 | directory, usually in <filepath>C:\Program files\Oracle\VirtualBox</filepath>. </li>
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| 40 | <li>
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| 41 | <p>On macOS hosts, this file is in the application bundle of <ph
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| 42 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. Right-click the <ph
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| 43 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> icon in Finder and choose <b outputclass="bold">Show
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| 44 | Package Contents</b>. The file is located in the <filepath>Contents/MacOS</filepath> folder. </p>
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| 45 | </li>
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| 46 | <li>
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| 47 | <p>On a Linux host, this file is in the <filepath>additions</filepath> folder where you installed <ph
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| 48 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, usually <filepath>/opt/VirtualBox/</filepath>. </p>
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| 49 | </li>
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| 50 | <li>
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| 51 | <p>On Oracle Solaris hosts, this file is in the <filepath>additions</filepath> folder where you installed
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| 52 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, usually <filepath>/opt/VirtualBox</filepath>. </p>
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| 53 | </li>
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| 54 | </ul>
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| 55 | </li>
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| 56 | <li>
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| 57 | <p>In the Virtual Media Manager, select the ISO file and click the <b outputclass="bold">Add</b> button. This
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| 58 | mounts the ISO file and presents it to your Windows guest as a CD-ROM. </p>
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| 59 | </li>
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| 60 | </ol>
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| 61 | <p>Unless you have the Autostart feature disabled in your Windows guest, Windows will now autostart the <ph
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| 62 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Guest Additions installation program from the Additions ISO.
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| 63 | If the Autostart feature has been turned off, choose <filepath>VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe</filepath> from the CD/DVD
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| 64 | drive inside the guest to start the installer. </p>
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| 65 | <p>The installer will add several device drivers to the Windows driver database and then invoke the hardware
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| 66 | detection wizard. </p>
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| 67 | <p>Depending on your configuration, it might display warnings that the drivers are not digitally signed. You must
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| 68 | confirm these in order to continue the installation and properly install the Additions. </p>
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| 69 | <p>After installation, reboot your guest operating system to activate the Additions. </p>
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| 70 | </body>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | </topic>
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