Once this is complete, you will need to restart your virtual machine for the new features to take effect.Ĭlose the machine, but before you start it up again, return to the Settings menu and change the Graphics Controller back to VMSVGA and Enable 3D Acceleration. The disc will appear inside your virtual desktop and you will be prompted to run the software. This will prompt you to download the Guest Additions disk image file. To install Guest Additions, you need to complete your installation of Ubuntu in your virtual machine and boot to the desktop.įrom there, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD. This includes better integration between your virtual machine and the host machine, as well as improved video support that enables the display resolution options when using VMSVGA. Guest Additions is an extra piece of software that unlocks some more advanced features of VirtualBox. scottgus1 Site Moderator Posts: 16709 Joined: 30.Previous step Next step 5.

Save the far left tab's log, zip the log file, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab. Please right-click the guest in the main Virtualbox window's guest list, choose Show Log.

If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the guest with the Power Off option set. Try to take it to fullscreen, then shut down the guest from within the guest OS if possible. Start the guest from full power off, not save-state. If you believe you already did install Guest Additions in the guest, do this: 'my computer' would be the Windows 10 guest's 'This PC'. Windows does not do this, so Guest Additions must be installed per iSlayer's method. This may account for full-screen working out of the Vbox ( ) when running Linux guests. FWIW Many Linux distros pre-install a fork of the Virtualbox Guest Additions in their OS's so things might work more smoothly when in a Virtualbox guest.

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