Currently I have VirtualBox 4.3.18 installed on Mac OS X Mavericks. I recently downloaded several Windows 7/8/8.1 images from either modern.ie or MSDN, and I wanted to install guest additions as well so I could do things like:
- change the size of the guest window
- turn on bidirectional shared clipboard
- add shared folder(s)
- etc
There is a handy menu option to do this from the VirtualBox VM menu:
Devices / Insert Guest Additions CD image... (Host+D)
My problem was that every time I clicked that (for every Windows image I tried) nothing happened. For some reason that menu option was not finding or not opening the guest additions installer.
Luckily it’s pretty straight forward to do this manually from within the guest virtual machine. Follow the screenshots below:
Open Computer
Double click the VirtualBox Guest Additions
Double click VBoxWindowsAdditions
Click Yes
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install (I didn’t add Direct3D Support)
Click Install
Click Finish
