Guest Additions

[Baashabob]

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM on a Windows 8.1 machine. The VM window is very small (640x480). I understand I need Guest Additions to be able to resize the window but I can't find it on the Virtualbox download page. Please don't suggest I install it from my VM because the window is so small I can't see the whole screen and is thus unusable. Besides the repositories won't necessarily have the up-to-date version of GA to match the latest edition of Virtualbox. So where is it?

PS: I have VB 4.3.10 and the extensions pack installed.

[socratis]

Users manual, look at Chapter 4, specifically 4.2.2.

[Baashabob]

Users manual, look at Chapter 4, specifically 4.2.2.

Perhaps you have a different Users manual than I do. In the one I have (the one that comes with the base program) section 4.2.2 assumes you already have possession of the Guest Additions iso. It also refers you to the Windows section for additional installation details. Both sections assume you already have the iso. Neither section tells you where to get it. I am not the only one with this problem. There are numerous posts on this and other forums asking the same question. It would take less than two minutes for the link to be added to the download page. Telling people to look in the manual for something that isn't there doesn't really help much.

[loukingjr]

select "Insert Guest Additions CD..." from the Device menu.

[loukingjr]

or you can get it here... http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.10/

[Baashabob]

Thx Loukingjr. The problem was never in how to install the file, it was how to obtain the file. This will remain a mystery to all new users until someone posts the link on the download page. It seems strange that a company goes to all the trouble of providing a program that people may freely use (Thanks Oracle ) and then hide a key component to make it work properly.

[Perryg]

Thx Loukingjr. The problem was never in how to install the file, it was how to obtain the file. This will remain a mystery to all new users until someone posts the link on the download page. It seems strange that a company goes to all the trouble of providing a program that people may freely use (Thanks Oracle ) and then hide a key component to make it work properly.

If you got the program from VirtualBox you already have the guest additions and downloading it again is fruitless. Just click the devices tab at the top of the guests window and then click insert guest additions. If however you get you copy from a repository of the Distro you use than that is why you do not have it. Not because VirtualBox hides it.

[loukingjr]

Thx Loukingjr. The problem was never in how to install the file, it was how to obtain the file. This will remain a mystery to all new users until someone posts the link on the download page. It seems strange that a company goes to all the trouble of providing a program that people may freely use (Thanks Oracle ) and then hide a key component to make it work properly.

You're welcome. They don't hide it though. It comes with VirtualBox when you install it so you don't have to download it. as Perry just said.