Where is Guest Additions?

bmwmcrider · Post by **bmwmcrider** » 14. Dec 2008, 12:13

Hello,

Just installed VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro with Windows XP Pro as my guest OS. I am impressed with the virtual machine; only took me a half an hour to be up and running. When I upgraded my Parallels installation from 3.0 to 4.0 I spent many hours trying to get it running correctly.

Now my problem - for guest additions page 56 in the users manual states:

"In the “Devices” menu in the virtual machine’s menu bar, VirtualBox has a handy menu item named “Install guest additions”, which will automatically bring up the Additions in your VM window. "

Well I don't have any "Devices" menu in the VB menu bar; I do have a Virtual Disk Manager which I launch. But it doesn't do me any good since I don't have a VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file any where in my system to mount.

Help me - what am I missing here?

Mike

Post by **mpack** » 14. Dec 2008, 15:30

I think you are looking in the wrong place. As the quote you selected mentions, the "Devices" menu is to be found in the "virtual machine's menu bar" - not VBox's menu bar.

In other words, run the VM. The guest display is inside a window, and the "Devices" menu is one of the items on the menu bar for that window. The "Install Guest Additions" option is the last option on the devices menu.

bmwmcrider · Post by **bmwmcrider** » 14. Dec 2008, 18:27

mpack - thanks for the response. Started the VM and looked for window containing a guest display and could not find such an item. Could I trouble you to be a little more specific as to what I have to do to access this window containing the guest display?

Note: out of curiosity I also installed Vista Ultimate for a guest OS; here too I could not find any window containing a guest display.

Thanks,

Mike

Post by **vbox4me2** » 14. Dec 2008, 18:41

Look at the example:

http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wi ... arting.png

You see the VM|Devices|Help?

bmwmcrider · Post by **bmwmcrider** » 15. Dec 2008, 17:33

vbox4me2 - thanks for the reply and the image. I figured it out already and got the guest additions installed - works great except for one problem that I have to muddle through. In the seamless mode the Vista OS windows resolution is terrible and the toolbar is a quarter of the way up from the bottom of the screen.

Probably don't have enough video memory allocated or a bad screen resolution setting. Soon as I get time I'll have to dig into this problem.

Mike