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Installing VirtualBox drivers

Installing VirtualBox drivers - Windows Server Tutorial

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Installing VirtualBox drivers

Now that we've gone ahead and installed our Windows Server 2012 into our virtual machine, there are a few things we need to do to the virtual machine so that it communicates better with Virtual Box. The main thing we need to do is add additional drivers to our virtual machine to allow the better communications. The way we add the drivers to our virtual machine. Is come up to the Devices menu option, click it, then come down here and insert the Guest Additions CD image. So, click that. Once we've clicked the Insert Guest Additions CD image, we can come down here to our. File explorer, and click that. When we click the file explorer, you'll notice that there is now a CD in the virtual machine called CD Drive Virtual Box Guest Editions. Go ahead and double click that. And this will open up a selection of files for you. We're going to go ahead and click the v box windows editions. To set up the drives for this machine. Now well go ahead and click the next button. Take our default settings…

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