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r43261 r43696 221 221 <para>Microsoft Windows 8 (all editions)</para> 222 222 </listitem> 223 223 224 224 <listitem> 225 225 <para>Microsoft Windows Server 2012</para> … … 355 355 <title>Unattended Installation</title> 356 356 357 <para>As a prerequiste for performing an unattended installation of the 358 VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Windows guest, there need to be 359 Oracle CA (Certificate Authority) 360 certificates installed in order to prevent user intervention popus which 361 will undermine a silent installation.</para> 362 363 <note>On some Windows versions like Windows 2000 and Windows XP the user intervention 364 popups mentioned above always will be displayed, even after importing the Oracle certificates.</note> 365 366 <para>Since VirtualBox 4.2 installing those CA certificates on a Windows 367 guest can be done in an automated fashion using the 368 <computeroutput>VBoxCertUtil.exe</computeroutput> utility found on the Guest 369 Additions installation CD in the <computeroutput>cert</computeroutput> 370 folder:</para> 371 372 <itemizedlist> 373 <listitem> 374 <para>Log in as Administrator on the guest.</para> 375 </listitem> 376 377 <listitem> 378 <para>Mount the VirtualBox Guest Additions .ISO.</para> 379 </listitem> 380 381 <listitem> 382 <para>Open a command line window on the guest and change to 383 the <computeroutput>cert</computeroutput> folder on the VirtualBox 384 Guest Additions CD.</para> 385 </listitem> 386 387 <listitem> 388 <para>Do a <computeroutput>VBoxCertUtil add-trusted-publisher oracle-vbox.cer --root oracle-vbox.cer</computeroutput>.</para> 389 <para>This will install the certificates to the certificate store. When installing the same certificate 390 more than once, an appropriate error will be displayed.</para> 391 </listitem> 392 </itemizedlist> 393 394 <para>Prior to VirtualBox 4.2 the Oracle CA certificates need to be imported in more manual style 395 using the <computeroutput>certutil.exe</computeroutput> utility, which is shipped since Windows 396 Vista. For Windows versions before Vista you need to download and install <computeroutput>certutil.exe</computeroutput> 397 manually. Since the certificates are not accompanied on the VirtualBox Guest Additions CD-ROM 398 prior to 4.2, these need to get extracted from a signed VirtualBox executable first.</para> 399 400 <para>In the following example the needed certificates will be extracted from the VirtualBox 401 Windows Guest Additions installer on the CD-ROM:</para> 402 403 <sect4> 404 <title>VeriSign Code Signing CA</title> 405 <itemizedlist> 406 <listitem> 407 <para>In the Windows Explorer, right click on VBoxWindowsAdditions-<Architecture>.exe, 408 click on "Properties"</para> 409 </listitem> 410 <listitem> 411 <para>Go to tab "Digital Signatures", choose "Oracle Corporation" and click on "Details"</para> 412 </listitem> 413 <listitem> 414 <para>In tab "General" click on "View Certificate"</para> 415 </listitem> 416 <listitem> 417 <para>In tab "Certification Path" select "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA"</para> 418 </listitem> 419 <listitem> 420 <para>Click on "View Certificate"</para> 421 </listitem> 422 <listitem> 423 <para>In tab "Details" click on "Copy to File ..."</para> 424 </listitem> 425 <listitem> 426 <para>In the upcoming wizard choose "DER encoded binary X.509 (.CER)" 427 and save the certificate file to a local path, finish the wizard</para> 428 </listitem> 429 <listitem> 430 <para>Close certificate dialog for "Verisign Class 3 Code Signing 431 2010 CA"</para> 432 </listitem> 433 </itemizedlist> 434 </sect4> 435 436 <sect4> 437 <title>Oracle Corporation</title> 438 <itemizedlist> 439 <listitem> 440 <para>In the Windows Explorer, right click on VBoxWindowsAdditions-<Architecture>.exe, 441 click on "Properties"</para> 442 </listitem> 443 <listitem> 444 <para>Go to tab "Digital Signatures", choose "Oracle Corporation" and click on "Details"</para> 445 </listitem> 446 <listitem> 447 <para>In tab "General" click on "View Certificate"</para> 448 </listitem> 449 <listitem> 450 <para>In tab "Details" click on "Copy to File ..."</para> 451 </listitem> 452 <listitem> 453 <para>In the upcoming wizard choose "DER encoded binary X.509 (.CER)" 454 and save the certificate file to a local path, finish the wizard</para> 455 </listitem> 456 <listitem> 457 <para>Close certificate dialog for "Oracle Corporation"</para> 458 </listitem> 459 </itemizedlist> 460 </sect4> 461 462 <para>After exporting the two certificates above they can be imported into the 463 certificate store using the <computeroutput>certutil.exe</computeroutput> 464 utility:</para> 465 466 <para><computeroutput>certutil -addstore -f Root "<Path to exported 467 certificate file>"</computeroutput></para> 468 357 469 <para>In order to allow for completely unattended guest installations, 358 470 you can specify a command line parameter to the install … … 363 475 <para>This automatically installs the right files and drivers for the 364 476 corresponding platform (32- or 64-bit).</para> 365 366 <note>367 <para>Because of the drivers are not yet WHQL certified, you still368 might get some driver installation popups, depending on the Windows369 guest version.</para>370 </note>371 477 372 478 <para>For more options regarding unattended guest installations, … … 736 842 be adjusted as needed using the tools which come with the guest 737 843 operating system.</para> 738 844 739 845 <para>If you want to understand more about the details of how the 740 846 X.Org drivers are set up (in particular if you wish to use them in a … … 1127 1233 With VirtualBox 3.0, Direct3D 8/9 support was added for Windows 1128 1234 guests. OpenGL 2.0 is now supported as well. 1129 With VirtualBox 4.1 Windows Aero theme support is added for 1235 With VirtualBox 4.1 Windows Aero theme support is added for 1130 1236 Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests (experimental)</para> 1131 1237 </footnote></para> … … 1202 1308 1203 1309 <para>With VirtualBox 4.1, Windows Aero theme support is added for 1204 Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests. To enable Aero theme support, 1205 the experimental VirtualBox WDDM video driver must be installed, 1310 Windows Vista and Windows 7 guests. To enable Aero theme support, 1311 the experimental VirtualBox WDDM video driver must be installed, 1206 1312 which is available with the Guest Additions installation. 1207 1313 Since the WDDM video driver is still experimental at this time, it is 1208 1314 not installed by default and must be <emphasis role="bold">manually 1209 1315 selected</emphasis> in the Guest Additions installer by answering "No" 1210 int the "Would you like to install basic Direct3D support" dialog 1316 int the "Would you like to install basic Direct3D support" dialog 1211 1317 displayed when the Direct3D feature is selected. 1212 1318 <note><para>Unlike the current basic Direct3D support, the WDDM video … … 1215 1321 <para>The Aero theme is not enabled by default. To enable it<itemizedlist> 1216 1322 <listitem> 1217 <para>In Windows Vista guest: right-click on the desktop, in the 1323 <para>In Windows Vista guest: right-click on the desktop, in the 1218 1324 contect menu select "Personalize", then select "Windows Color and Appearance" 1219 in the "Personalization" window, in the "Appearance Settings" dialog select 1325 in the "Personalization" window, in the "Appearance Settings" dialog select 1220 1326 "Windows Aero" and press "OK"</para></listitem> 1221 1327 <listitem> 1222 <para>In Windows 7 guest: right-click on the desktop, in the 1328 <para>In Windows 7 guest: right-click on the desktop, in the 1223 1329 contect menu select "Personalize" and select any Aero theme 1224 1330 in the "Personalization" window</para></listitem>
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