Changeset 108796 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US/dita/topics/mountingadditionsiso.dita
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r107390 r108796 5 5 6 6 <body> 7 <p>In the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu in the virtual machine's menu bar, <ph 8 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has a menu item <b outputclass="bold">Insert Guest Additions 9 CD Image</b>, which mounts the Guest Additions ISO file inside your virtual machine. A Windows guest should then 10 automatically start the Guest Additions installer, which installs the Guest Additions on your Windows guest. </p> 11 <p>For other guest operating systems, or if automatic start of software on a CD is disabled, you need to do a manual 12 start of the installer. </p> 7 <p>Follow the steps in <xref href="guestadd-install.dita"/>.</p> 13 8 <note> 14 <p>For the basic Direct3D acceleration to work in a Windows guest, you have to install the WDDM video driver 15 available for Windows Vista or later. </p> 16 <p> 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.</p> 9 <p>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.</p> 10 <p>For Windows 8 and later, only the WDDM Direct3D video driver is available.</p> 17 11 </note> 18 <p>If you prefer to mount the Guest Additions manually, you can perform the following steps: </p> 19 <ol> 20 <li> 21 <p>Start the virtual machine in which you have installed Windows. </p> 22 </li> 23 <li> 24 <p>Select <b outputclass="bold">Optical Drives</b> from the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu in the 25 virtual machine's menu bar and then <b outputclass="bold">Choose/Create a Disk Image</b>. This displays the 26 Virtual Media Manager, described in <xref href="virtual-media-manager.dita#virtual-media-manager"/>. </p> 27 </li> 28 <li> 29 <p>In the Virtual Media Manager, click <b outputclass="bold">Add</b> and browse your host file system for the 30 <filepath>VBoxGuestAdditions.iso</filepath> file. </p> 31 <ul> 32 <li>On a Windows host, this file is in the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> installation 33 directory, usually in <filepath>C:\Program files\Oracle\VirtualBox</filepath>. </li> 34 <li> 35 <p>On macOS hosts, this file is in the application bundle of <ph 36 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. Right-click the <ph 37 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> icon in Finder and choose <b outputclass="bold">Show 38 Package Contents</b>. The file is located in the <filepath>Contents/MacOS</filepath> folder. </p> 39 </li> 40 <li> 41 <p>On a Linux host, this file is in the <filepath>additions</filepath> folder where you installed <ph 42 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, usually <filepath>/opt/VirtualBox/</filepath>. </p> 43 </li> 44 <li> 45 <p>On Oracle Solaris hosts, this file is in the <filepath>additions</filepath> folder where you installed 46 <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, usually <filepath>/opt/VirtualBox</filepath>. </p> 47 </li> 48 </ul> 49 </li> 50 <li> 51 <p>In the Virtual Media Manager, select the ISO file and click the <b outputclass="bold">Add</b> button. This 52 mounts the ISO file and presents it to your Windows guest as a CD-ROM. </p> 53 </li> 54 </ol> 55 <p>Unless you have the Autostart feature disabled in your Windows guest, Windows will now autostart the <ph 56 conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Guest Additions installation program from the Additions ISO. 57 If the Autostart feature has been turned off, choose <filepath>VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe</filepath> from the CD/DVD 58 drive inside the guest to start the installer. </p> 59 <p>The installer will add several device drivers to the Windows driver database and then invoke the hardware 60 detection wizard. </p> 61 <p>Depending on your configuration, it might display warnings that the drivers are not digitally signed. You must 62 confirm these in order to continue the installation and properly install the Additions. </p> 63 <p>After installation, reboot your guest operating system to activate the Additions. </p> 12 <p>For completely unattended guest installations, you can specify a command line parameter to the install launcher: </p> 13 <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe /S</pre> 14 <p>This automatically installs the right files and drivers for the corresponding platform, either 32-bit or 64-bit.</p> 15 <note> 16 <p>For Windows Aero to run correctly on a guest, the guest's VRAM size needs to be configured to at least 128 MB.</p> 17 </note> 18 <p>For more options regarding unattended guest installations, consult the command line help by using the command:</p> 19 <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe /?</pre> 64 20 </body> 65 21
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