VirtualBox 7 How to install the Guest Additions for better functionality

A quick tutorial on how to install guest additions in your virtual machine using the free built in tools in VirtualBox.

[supriyochatterjee]

Great to see you back Sir after a long time, waiting for your new videos on Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, VMWARE troubleshooting series

[alialiyev]

Such a helpful guide. I wanted a VM for my old games, but it wasnt working. Now that I installed guest additions its smooth. Thank you so much!

[SupraNork]

woah, straight to the point tutorial? awesome!

[judeleon]

I like the way you teach. I run my VMs on windows 10 machine. I just upgraded to Virtualbox 7 and was trying to upgrade the guest addition by clicking on the "upgrade virtualbox guest addition" option listed under the Device menu but it was mistakenly aborted midway due to unexpected shut down of my machine. Now, I can't upgrade because the "Upgrade virtualbox guest addition" option is now disabled. Is there a way out of this?

[sqxddy]

Hey, i dont see the top bar with the Devices section since i upgraded to virtual box 7. Is there any way of getting it back?

[christianoleks]

I'm trying to setup a windows XP server and I've followed all the steps till the end of this video, once I rebooted after the guest additions wizard my virtual box server screen is just black when I start the server, is this a common occurrence because its windows XP? I also setup shared folders and that does not seem to appear on the Windows XP server

[elbambinoxdicapo]

sir, how can i add the cd drive of the guests addition on my virtualbox?
i don´t see the optical services inside my windows 11 virtual machine

[Lightwind]

Thank you! Super fast and straight to point. Why is it not installed by default. .