12-15-2014, 07:48 PM
Hello Yotu3,
Really not sure what issues you had with VBox install.
I have installed it many/many times on Win7 & XP.
In my opinion it is the best for Home Users/Enthusiasts,
I think VMPlayer is more suited towards business, given it's parent.
Some of the common things over looked.
1. This may or may not be possible depending on the age/vintage of your CPU.?
In the BIOS settings you may have a setting,
Something like Virtualisation/VTx, check your manual or go on-line.
This improves performance by using your CPU features directly, rather than emulating them.
2. Before creating your first VM ensure Virtualbox extensions pack is installed.
Ensure you get the version that matches the Virtualbox version you are about to install
VirtualBox 4.3.20 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
It is a download common across all platforms released with each release,
download it from the same location you get Virtual box from(not the Oracle Site):
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads then..
File > Preferences > Extensions click on the little orange V to add it
![[Image: rzCQavj.png]](http://i.imgur.com/rzCQavj.png)
3. Once you have created your VM the first thing you need to do is install "Guest Additions"
This contains all the relevant VBox drivers for the corresponding VM, like display etc...
Apologies & Sorry... "Windows Alert", but the only way I could capture a screen shot is with a Windows VM,
My LL goes full screen 1920x1080, and the VBox pop-up menu is not captured by the screen shot tool.?
At this stage your VM will be in a standard default box, like 1280/1024 or 1024/768?, which maybe native.?
There is a menu, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image
((this is added automatically during VBox install, it's a small iso image in a VBox directory))
Click it, it should auto start installing the Virtualbox drivers in the VM
![[Image: v60AnmT.png]](http://i.imgur.com/v60AnmT.png)
Dave
Really not sure what issues you had with VBox install.
I have installed it many/many times on Win7 & XP.
In my opinion it is the best for Home Users/Enthusiasts,
I think VMPlayer is more suited towards business, given it's parent.
Some of the common things over looked.
1. This may or may not be possible depending on the age/vintage of your CPU.?
In the BIOS settings you may have a setting,
Something like Virtualisation/VTx, check your manual or go on-line.
This improves performance by using your CPU features directly, rather than emulating them.
2. Before creating your first VM ensure Virtualbox extensions pack is installed.
Ensure you get the version that matches the Virtualbox version you are about to install
VirtualBox 4.3.20 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
It is a download common across all platforms released with each release,
download it from the same location you get Virtual box from(not the Oracle Site):
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads then..
File > Preferences > Extensions click on the little orange V to add it
3. Once you have created your VM the first thing you need to do is install "Guest Additions"
This contains all the relevant VBox drivers for the corresponding VM, like display etc...
Apologies & Sorry... "Windows Alert", but the only way I could capture a screen shot is with a Windows VM,
My LL goes full screen 1920x1080, and the VBox pop-up menu is not captured by the screen shot tool.?
At this stage your VM will be in a standard default box, like 1280/1024 or 1024/768?, which maybe native.?
There is a menu, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image
((this is added automatically during VBox install, it's a small iso image in a VBox directory))
Click it, it should auto start installing the Virtualbox drivers in the VM
Dave
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Linux Lite 3.0 Humming on a ASRock N3070 Mobo ~ btrfs RAID 10 Install on 4 Disks
Computers Early days:
ZX Spectrum(1982) , HP-150 MS-DOS(1983) , Amstrad CPC464(1984) , BBC Micro B+64(1985) , My First PC HP-Vectra(1987)