In addition, with Windows, Linux and Solaris guests, you can The custom video drivers that are installed with the GuestĪdditions provide you with extra high and non-standard video modesĪs well as accelerated video performance. While the virtual graphics card which VirtualBox emulatesįor any guest operating system provides all the basic features,

For details, please refer to Section 4.3, “Shared folders”. Operating system as a network share, irrespective of whether guestĪctually has a network. Tell VirtualBox to treat a certain host directory as a sharedįolder, and VirtualBox will make it available to the guest Much like ordinary Windows network shares, you can These provide an easy way to exchange files between the hostĪnd the guest. With the 'real' mouse driver on your host and moves the guest To make this work,Ī special mouse driver is installed in the guest that communicates The mouse from being captured by the guest OS. Pointer and pressing the Host key is no longer required to 'free' To overcome the limitations for mouse support that wereĭescribed in Section 1.8.2, “Capturing and releasing keyboard and mouse”, this provides The interactive performance of guest systems. Interactive use, the VirtualBox Guest Additions will make your life muchĮasier by providing closer integration between host and guest and improving Installing operating systems in a virtual machine. The previous chapter covered getting started with VirtualBox and Hardware 2D video acceleration for Windows guests 4.6. Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) 4.5.2. Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions 4.2.1.

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