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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestadd-install">
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| 4 | <title>Installing Guest Additions</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>These instructions apply to all OSs. For additional information, see <xref href="additions-windows.dita"/>, <xref href="additions-linux.dita"/>, <xref href="additions-solaris.dita"/>, or <xref href="additions-os2.dita"/>.</p>
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| 8 | <section>
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| 9 | <title>Mount the Guest Additions ISO</title>
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| 10 | <ol>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p>Start the virtual machine. The OS must be installed.</p>
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| 13 | </li>
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| 14 | <li>
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| 15 | <p>From the <uicontrol>Devices</uicontrol> menu, choose <uicontrol>Insert Guest Additions CD Image</uicontrol>, which mounts the Guest Additions ISO file inside your VM.</p>
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| 16 | </li>
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| 17 | <li>
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| 18 | <p>If this option is not available, or if you prefer to mount the ISO manually:</p>
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| 19 | <ol>
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| 20 | <li>
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| 21 | <p>From the <uicontrol>Devices</uicontrol> menu, choose <uicontrol>Optical Drives</uicontrol>, and then<uicontrol> Choose/Create a Disk Image</uicontrol>. This displays <xref href="virtual-media-manager.dita"/>.</p>
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| 22 | </li>
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| 23 | <li>
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| 24 | <p>In the Virtual Media Manager, click <uicontrol>Add</uicontrol> and browse your host file system for the <filepath>VBoxGuestAdditions.iso</filepath> file.</p>
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| 25 | <ul>
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| 26 | <li>On a Windows host, this file is in the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> installation directory, usually in <filepath>C:\Program files\Oracle\VirtualBox</filepath>.</li>
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| 27 | <li>
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| 28 | <p>On a Linux host, this file is in the <filepath>additions</filepath> folder where you installed <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, usually <filepath>/opt/VirtualBox/</filepath>.</p>
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| 29 | </li>
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| 30 | <li>
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| 31 | <p>On Oracle Solaris hosts, this file is in the <filepath>additions</filepath> folder where you installed <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, usually <filepath>/opt/VirtualBox</filepath>.</p>
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| 32 | </li>
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| 33 | </ul>
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| 34 | </li>
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| 35 | <li>
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| 36 | <p>In the Virtual Media Manager, select the ISO file and click <uicontrol>Add</uicontrol>. This mounts the ISO file and presents it to your guest OS as a CD-ROM.</p>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | </ol>
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| 39 | </li>
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| 40 | </ol>
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| 41 | </section>
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| 42 | <section>
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| 43 | <title>Run the Guest Additions Installer</title>
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| 44 | <ol>
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| 45 | <li>
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| 46 | <p>Mount the ISO as described in the previous task.</p>
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| 47 | </li>
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| 48 | <li>
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| 49 | <p>Unless you have the Autostart feature disabled, or it is not supported, the OS will now autostart the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Guest Additions installer from the Guest Additions ISO.</p>
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| 50 | <p>If the Autostart feature has been turned off, choose <filepath>VBox<OS>Additions.exe</filepath> from the CD/DVD drive inside the guest to start the installer, where <filepath><OS></filepath> is <filepath>Windows</filepath>, <filepath>Linux</filepath>, <filepath>OS2</filepath> or <filepath>Solaris</filepath>.</p>
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| 51 | </li>
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| 52 | <li>
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| 53 | <p>Follow the instructions in the installer.</p>
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| 54 | </li>
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| 55 | <li>
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| 56 | <p>Reboot the guest OS.</p>
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| 57 | </li>
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| 58 | </ol>
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| 59 | </section>
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| 60 | </body>
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| 61 | </topic>
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