Which have special meanings for controlling and monitoring the To exchange data bits between a guest and a host, some of

Properties provide a generic string-based mechanism The Guest Additions enable you to control See Section 4.6, “Seamless Windows”.Ĭhannels. Section 4.5, “Hardware-Accelerated Graphics”.įeature, the individual windows that are displayed on theĭesktop of the virtual machine can be mapped on the host'sĭesktop, as if the underlying application was actually running If the Guest Additions are installed, 3D graphics and 2D videoįor guest applications can be accelerated. Section 1.8.5, “Resizing the Machine's Window”. Will be automatically adjusted, as if you had manually entered You can resize the virtual machine's window if the GuestĪdditions are installed. In addition, with Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris guests,

Modes, as well as accelerated video performance. The custom video drivers that are installed with the GuestĪdditions provide you with extra high and non-standard video The virtual graphics card which Oracle VM VirtualBox emulates forĪny guest operating system provides all the basic features, Operating system as a network share, irrespective of whether Oracle VM VirtualBox to treat a certain host directory as a sharedįolder, and Oracle VM VirtualBox will make it available to the guest Much like ordinary Windows network shares, you can tell Mouse driver on your host and moves the guest mouse pointerĪn easy way to exchange files between the host and the guest. Installed in the guest that communicates with the physical To make this work, a special mouse driver is Pointer and pressing the Host key is no longer required toįree the mouse from being captured by the Section 1.8.2, “Capturing and Releasing Keyboard and Mouse”, this feature provides Overcome the limitations for mouse support described in This chapter describes the Guest Additions in detail. Your life much easier by providing closer integration between hostĪnd guest and improving the interactive performance of guest For any seriousĪnd interactive use, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions will make Installing operating systems in a virtual machine. The previous chapter covered getting started with Oracle VM VirtualBox and

Controlling Virtual Monitor Topology 4.11.1. Using the Guest Control File Manager 4.9.

Using Guest Properties to Wait on VM Events 4.8. Hardware 2D Video Acceleration for Windows Guests 4.6. Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) 4.5.2. Guest Additions for Oracle Solaris 4.2.4. Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions 4.2.1.

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