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Jul 09, 2019 As you recall, VirtualBox is installed on the host OS running on a host machine (a physical machine) and the guest OS is the operating system running on a VM. If you try to maximize the VirtualBox VM window right after installing Windows 10 on a VirtualBox VM, the size of the guest OS user interface is not increased (see the screenshot below).
The following section describes known problems with this release of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Unless marked otherwise, these issues are planned to be fixed in later releases.
- The following Guest SMP (multiprocessor) limitations exist:
- Poor performance with 32-bit guests on AMD CPUs. This affects mainly Windows and Oracle Solaris guests, but possibly also some Linux kernel revisions. Partially solved for 32-bit Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 guests. Requires the Guest Additions to be installed.
- Poor performance with 32-bit guests on certain Intel CPU models that do not include virtual APIC hardware optimization support. This affects mainly Windows and Oracle Solaris guests, but possibly also some Linux kernel revisions. Partially solved for 32-bit Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 guests. Requires the Guest Additions to be installed.
- NX (no execute, data execution prevention) only works for guests running on 64-bit hosts and requires that hardware virtualization be enabled.
- Guest control. On Windows guests, a process started using the guest control execute support will not be able to display a graphical user interface unless the user account under which it is running is currently logged in and has a desktop session.Also, to use accounts without or with an empty password, the guest's group policy must be changed. To do so, open the group policy editor on the command line by typing gpedit.msc, open the key
Computer ConfigurationWindows SettingsSecurity SettingsLocal PoliciesSecurity Options
and change the value ofAccounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only
to Disabled. - Compacting virtual disk images is limited to VDI files. The VBoxManage modifymedium --compact command is currently only implemented for VDI files. At the moment the only way to optimize the size of a virtual disk images in other formats, such as VMDK or VHD, is to clone the image and then use the cloned image in the VM configuration.
- OVF import/export:
- OVF localization, with multiple languages in a single OVF file, is not yet supported.
- Some OVF sections like StartupSection, DeploymentOptionSection, and InstallSection are ignored.
- OVF environment documents, including their property sections and appliance configuration with ISO images, are not yet supported.
- Remote files using HTTP or other mechanisms are not yet supported.
- Neither scale mode nor seamless mode work correctly with guests using OpenGL 3D features, such as with Compiz-enabled window managers.
- The RDP server in the Oracle VM VirtualBox extension pack supports only audio streams in format 22.05kHz stereo 16-bit. If the RDP client requests any other audio format there will be no audio.
- Preserving the aspect ratio in scale mode works only on Windows hosts and on Mac OS X hosts.
- On Mac OS X hosts, the following features are not yet implemented:
- Numlock emulation
- CPU frequency metric
- Memory ballooning
- Mac OS X guests:
- Mac OS X guests can only run on a certain host hardware. For details about license and host hardware limitations. See Section 3.1.1, “Mac OS X Guests” and check the Apple software license conditions.
- Oracle VM VirtualBox does not provide Guest Additions for Mac OS X at this time.
- The graphics resolution currently defaults to 1024x768 as Mac OS X falls back to the built-in EFI display support. See Section 3.14.1, “Video Modes in EFI” for more information on how to change EFI video modes.
- Mac OS X guests only work with one CPU assigned to the VM. Support for SMP will be provided in a future release.
- Depending on your system and version of Mac OS X, you might experience guest hangs after some time. This can be fixed by turning off energy saving. Set the timeout to 'Never' in the system preferences.
- By default, the Oracle VM VirtualBox EFI enables debug output of the Mac OS X kernel to help you diagnose boot problems. Note that there is a lot of output and not all errors are fatal. They would also show when using a physical Apple Macintosh computer. You can turn off these messages by using the following command:To revert to the previous behavior, use the following command:
- It is currently not possible to start a Mac OS X guest in safe mode by specifying the
-x
option inVBoxInternal2/EfiBootArgs
extradata.
- Oracle Solaris hosts:
- USB support on Oracle Solaris hosts requires Oracle Solaris 11 version snv_124 or later. Webcams and other isochronous devices are known to have poor performance.
- Host Webcam passthrough is restricted to 640x480 frames at 20 frames per second due to limitations in the Oracle Solaris V4L2 API. This may be addressed in a future Oracle Solaris release.
- No ACPI information, such as battery status or power source, is reported to the guest.
- No support for using wireless adapters with bridged networking.
- Crossbow-based bridged networking on Oracle Solaris 11 hosts does not work directly with aggregate links. However, you can use dladm to manually create a VNIC over the aggregate link and use that with a VM. This limitation does not exist in Oracle Solaris 11u1 build 17 and later.
- Neither virtio nor Intel PRO/1000 drivers for Windows XP guests support segmentation offloading. Therefore Windows XP guests have slower transmission rates comparing to other guest types. Refer to MS Knowledge base article 842264 for additional information.
- Guest Additions for OS/2. Seamless windows and automatic guest resizing will probably never be implemented due to inherent limitations of the OS/2 graphics system.
- Some guest operating systems predating ATAPI CD-ROMs may exhibit long delays or entirely fail to boot in certain configurations. This is most likely to happen when an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM exists alone on a primary or secondary IDE channel.Affected operating systems are MS OS/2 1.21: fails to boot with an error message referencing COUNTRY.SYS and MS OS/2 1.3: long boot delays. To avoid such problems, disable the emulated IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. The guest OS cannot use this device, anyway.
Guest Additions are available for virtual machines running Windows, Linux, Oracle Solaris, or OS/2. The following sections describe the specifics of each variant in detail.
The Oracle VM VirtualBox Windows Guest Additions are designed to be installed in a virtual machine running a Windows operating system. The following versions of Windows guests are supported:
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (any service pack)
- Microsoft Windows 2000 (any service pack)
- Microsoft Windows XP (any service pack)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (any service pack)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Vista (all editions)
- Microsoft Windows 7 (all editions)
- Microsoft Windows 8 (all editions)
- Microsoft Windows 10 RTM build 10240
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
In the Devices menu in the virtual machine's menu bar, Oracle VM VirtualBox has a menu item Insert Guest Additions CD Image, which mounts the Guest Additions ISO file inside your virtual machine. A Windows guest should then automatically start the Guest Additions installer, which installs the Guest Additions on your Windows guest.
For other guest operating systems, or if automatic start of software on a CD is disabled, you need to do a manual start of the installer.
For the basic Direct3D acceleration to work in a Windows guest, you have to install the WDDM video driver available for Windows Vista or later.
For Windows 8 and later, only the WDDM Direct3D video driver is available. For basic Direct3D acceleration to work in Windows XP guests, you have to install the Guest Additions in Safe Mode. See Known Limitations for details.
If you prefer to mount the Guest Additions manually, you can perform the following steps:
- Start the virtual machine in which you have installed Windows.
- Select Optical Drives from the Devices menu in the virtual machine's menu bar and then Choose/Create a Disk Image. This displays the Virtual Media Manager, described in Section 5.3, “The Virtual Media Manager”.
- In the Virtual Media Manager, click Add and browse your host file system for the
VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
file.- On a Windows host, this file is in the Oracle VM VirtualBox installation directory, usually in
C:Program filesOracleVirtualBox
. - On Mac OS X hosts, this file is in the application bundle of Oracle VM VirtualBox. Right-click on the Oracle VM VirtualBox icon in Finder and choose Show Package Contents. The file is located in the
Contents/MacOS
folder. - On a Linux host, this file is in the
additions
folder where you installed Oracle VM VirtualBox, usually/opt/VirtualBox/
. - On Oracle Solaris hosts, this file is in the
additions
folder where you installed Oracle VM VirtualBox, usually/opt/VirtualBox
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- In the Virtual Media Manager, select the ISO file and click the Add button. This mounts the ISO file and presents it to your Windows guest as a CD-ROM.
Unless you have the Autostart feature disabled in your Windows guest, Windows will now autostart the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions installation program from the Additions ISO. If the Autostart feature has been turned off, choose
VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe
from the CD/DVD drive inside the guest to start the installer. The installer will add several device drivers to the Windows driver database and then invoke the hardware detection wizard.
Depending on your configuration, it might display warnings that the drivers are not digitally signed. You must confirm these in order to continue the installation and properly install the Additions.
After installation, reboot your guest operating system to activate the Additions.
Windows Guest Additions can be updated by running the installation program again. This replaces the previous Additions drivers with updated versions.
Alternatively, you can also open the Windows Device Manager and select Update Driver.. for the following devices:
- Oracle VM VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
- Oracle VM VirtualBox System Device
For each, choose the option to provide your own driver, click Have Disk and navigate to the CD-ROM drive with the Guest Additions.
To avoid popups when performing an unattended installation of the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions, the code signing certificates used to sign the drivers needs to be installed in the correct certificate stores on the guest operating system. Failure to do this will cause a typical Windows installation to display multiple dialogs asking whether you want to install a particular driver.
On some Windows versions, such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the user intervention popups mentioned above are always displayed, even after importing the Oracle certificates.
Installing the code signing certificates on a Windows guest can be done automatically. Use the
VBoxCertUtil.exe
utility from the cert
folder on the Guest Additions installation CD. Use the following steps:
- Log in as Administrator on the guest.
- Mount the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions .ISO.
- Open a command line window on the guest and change to the
cert
folder on the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions CD. - Run the following command:This command installs the certificates to the certificate store. When installing the same certificate more than once, an appropriate error will be displayed.
To allow for completely unattended guest installations, you can specify a command line parameter to the install launcher:
This automatically installs the right files and drivers for the corresponding platform, either 32-bit or 64-bit.
By default on an unattended installation on a Vista or Windows 7 guest, there will be the XPDM graphics driver installed. This graphics driver does not support Windows Aero / Direct3D on the guest. Instead, the WDDM graphics driver needs to be installed. To select this driver by default, add the command line parameter
/with_wddm
when invoking the Windows Guest Additions installer. This is only required for Vista and Windows 7. For Windows Aero to run correctly on a guest, the guest's VRAM size needs to be configured to at least 128 MB.
For more options regarding unattended guest installations, consult the command line help by using the command:
If you would like to install the files and drivers manually, you can extract the files from the Windows Guest Additions setup as follows:
To explicitly extract the Windows Guest Additions for another platform than the current running one, such as 64-bit files on a 32-bit system, you must use the appropriate platform installer. Use
VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe
or VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe
with the /extract
parameter. Like the Windows Guest Additions, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux are a set of device drivers and system applications which may be installed in the guest operating system.
The following Linux distributions are officially supported:
- Oracle Linux as of version 5, including UEK kernels
- Fedora as of Fedora Core 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as of version 3
- SUSE and openSUSE Linux as of version 9
- Ubuntu as of version 5.10
Many other distributions are known to work with the Guest Additions.
The version of the Linux kernel supplied by default in SUSE and openSUSE 10.2, Ubuntu 6.10 (all versions) and Ubuntu 6.06 (server edition) contains a bug which can cause it to crash during startup when it is run in a virtual machine. The Guest Additions work in those distributions.
Note that some Linux distributions already come with all or part of the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions. You may choose to keep the distribution's version of the Guest Additions but these are often not up to date and limited in functionality, so we recommend replacing them with the Guest Additions that come with Oracle VM VirtualBox. The Oracle VM VirtualBox Linux Guest Additions installer tries to detect an existing installation and replace them but depending on how the distribution integrates the Guest Additions, this may require some manual interaction. It is highly recommended to take a snapshot of the virtual machine before replacing preinstalled Guest Additions.
The Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux are provided on the same virtual CD-ROM file as the Guest Additions for Windows. See Section 4.2.1.1, “Installing the Windows Guest Additions”. They also come with an installation program that guides you through the setup process. However, due to the significant differences between Linux distributions, installation may be slightly more complex when compared to Windows.
Installation generally involves the following steps:
- Before installing the Guest Additions, you prepare your guest system for building external kernel modules. This works as described in Section 2.3.2, “The Oracle VM VirtualBox Kernel Modules”, except that this step must be performed in your Linux guest instead of on a Linux host system.If you suspect that something has gone wrong, check that your guest is set up correctly and run the following command as root:
- Insert the
VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
CD file into your Linux guest's virtual CD-ROM drive, as described for a Windows guest in Section 4.2.1.1, “Installing the Windows Guest Additions”. - Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and run the following command as root:
In Linux and Oracle Solaris guests, Oracle VM VirtualBox graphics and mouse integration goes through the X Window System. Oracle VM VirtualBox can use the X.Org variant of the system, or XFree86 version 4.3 which is identical to the first X.Org release. During the installation process, the X.Org display server will be set up to use the graphics and mouse drivers which come with the Guest Additions.
After installing the Guest Additions into a fresh installation of a supported Linux distribution or Oracle Solaris system, many unsupported systems will work correctly too, the guest's graphics mode will change to fit the size of the Oracle VM VirtualBox window on the host when it is resized. You can also ask the guest system to switch to a particular resolution by sending a video mode hint using the VBoxManage tool.
Multiple guest monitors are supported in guests using the X.Org server version 1.3, which is part of release 7.3 of the X Window System version 11, or a later version. The layout of the guest screens can be adjusted as needed using the tools which come with the guest operating system.
If you want to understand more about the details of how the X.Org drivers are set up, in particular if you wish to use them in a setting which our installer does not handle correctly, see Guest Graphics and Mouse Driver Setup in Depth.
The Guest Additions can simply be updated by going through the installation procedure again with an updated CD-ROM image. This will replace the drivers with updated versions. You should reboot after updating the Guest Additions.
If you have a version of the Guest Additions installed on your virtual machine and wish to remove it without installing new ones, you can do so by inserting the Guest Additions CD image into the virtual CD-ROM drive as described above. Then run the installer for the current Guest Additions with the
uninstall
parameter from the path that the CD image is mounted on in the guest, as follows: While this will normally work without issues, you may need to do some manual cleanup of the guest in some cases, especially of the XFree86Config or xorg.conf file. In particular, if the Additions version installed or the guest operating system were very old, or if you made your own changes to the Guest Additions setup after you installed them.
You can uninstall the Additions as follows:
Replace
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The following Oracle Solaris distributions are officially supported:
- Oracle Solaris 11, including Oracle Solaris 11 Express
- Oracle Solaris 10 4/08 and later
Other distributions may work if they are based on comparable software releases.
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4.2.3.1. Installing the Oracle Solaris Guest Additions
The Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions for Oracle Solaris are provided on the same ISO CD-ROM as the Additions for Windows and Linux. They come with an installation program that guides you through the setup process.
Installation involves the following steps:
- Mount the
VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
file as your Oracle Solaris guest's virtual CD-ROM drive, exactly the same way as described for a Windows guest in Section 4.2.1.1, “Installing the Windows Guest Additions”.If the CD-ROM drive on the guest does not get mounted, as seen with some versions of Oracle Solaris 10, run the following command as root: - Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and run the following command as root:
- Choose 1 and confirm installation of the Guest Additions package. After the installation is complete, log out and log in to X server on your guest, to activate the X11 Guest Additions.
4.2.3.2. Uninstalling the Oracle Solaris Guest Additions
The Oracle Solaris Guest Additions can be safely removed by removing the package from the guest. Open a root terminal session and run the following command:
4.2.3.3. Updating the Oracle Solaris Guest Additions
The Guest Additions should be updated by first uninstalling the existing Guest Additions and then installing the new ones. Attempting to install new Guest Additions without removing the existing ones is not possible.
Oracle VM VirtualBox also ships with a set of drivers that improve running OS/2 in a virtual machine. Due to restrictions of OS/2 itself, this variant of the Guest Additions has a limited feature set. See Known Limitations for details.
The OS/2 Guest Additions are provided on the same ISO CD-ROM as those for the other platforms. Mount the ISO in OS/2 as described previously. The OS/2 Guest Additions are located in the directory
OS2
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We do not provide an automatic installer at this time. See the
readme.txt
file in the CD-ROM directory, which describes how to install the OS/2 Guest Additions manually. Copyright © 2004, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Legal Notices