Downloads:
44,466
Downloads of v 6.1.12:
1,230
Last Update:
14 Jul 2020
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Oracle Corporation
Tags:
virtualbox tools virtualization vm guest- Software Specific:
- Software Site
- Software License
- Software Docs
- Package Specific:
- Package Source
- Package outdated?
- Package broken?
- Contact Maintainers
- Contact Site Admins
- Software Vendor?
- Report Abuse
- Download
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install)
This is not the latest version of Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) available.
- 1
- 2
- 3
6.1.12 | Updated: 14 Jul 2020
- Software Specific:
- Software Site
- Software License
- Software Docs
- Package Specific:
- Package Source
- Package outdated?
- Package broken?
- Contact Maintainers
- Contact Site Admins
- Software Vendor?
- Report Abuse
- Download
Downloads:
44,466
Downloads of v 6.1.12:
1,230
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Oracle Corporation
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.12
This is not the latest version of Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) available.
Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Oracle Corporation. The inclusion of Oracle Corporation trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Oracle Corporation goods or services and not for commercial purposes.
- 1
- 2
- 3
All Checks are Passing
3 Passing Tests
Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall
To install Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install), run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
Deployment Method:
This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url
(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)
2. Setup Your Environment
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment
Option 1: Cached Package (Unreliable, Requires Internet - Same As Community)-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
-
Open Source
-
Download the package:
Download - Follow manual internalization instructions
-
-
Package Internalizer (C4B)
-
Run: (additional options)
choco download virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install --internalize --version=6.1.12 --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/
-
For package and dependencies run:
choco push --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'"
- Automate package internalization
-
Run: (additional options)
3. Copy Your Script
choco upgrade virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'6.1.12'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'6.1.12'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Install virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install
win_chocolatey:
name: virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install
version: '6.1.12'
source: INTERNAL REPO URL
state: present
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install' do
action :install
source 'INTERNAL REPO URL'
version '6.1.12'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
cChocoPackageInstaller virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install
{
Name = "virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install"
Version = "6.1.12"
Source = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install':
ensure => '6.1.12',
provider => 'chocolatey',
source => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
Private CDN cached downloads available for licensed customers. Never experience 404 breakages again! Learn more...
This package is likely a meta/virtual (*) or an installer (*.install) or portable (*.portable) application package.
- Meta/virtual (*) - has a dependency on the *.install or the *.portable package - it is provided for discoverability and for other packages to take a dependency on.
- Portable (*.portable/*.commandline (deprecated naming convention)/*.tool (deprecated naming convention)) - usually zips or archives that require no administrative access to install.
- Install (*.install/*.app (deprecated naming convention)) - uses native installers, usually requires administrative access to install.
Learn more about chocolatey's distinction of installed versus portable apps and/or learn about this kind of package.
This package was approved as a trusted package on 15 Jul 2020.
NOTE: This package should be installed inside your guest Windows VM and is useful for automating the building of Virtualbox VM's. It is not meant to be installed on the host.
The Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed. They consist of device drivers and system applications that optimize the guest operating system for better performance and usability.
The Guest Additions offer the following features:
- Mouse pointer integration. To overcome the limitations for mouse support described in Section 1.9.2, “Capturing and Releasing Keyboard and Mouse”, this feature provides you with seamless mouse support. You will only have one mouse pointer and pressing the Host key is no longer required to "free" the mouse from being captured by the guest OS.
- Shared folders. These provide an easy way to exchange files between the host and the guest. Much like ordinary Windows network shares, you can tell Oracle VM VirtualBox to treat a certain host directory as a shared folder, and Oracle VM VirtualBox will make it available to the guest operating system as a network share, irrespective of whether guest actually has a network.
- Better video support. While the virtual graphics card which Oracle VM VirtualBox emulates for any guest operating system provides all the basic features, the custom video drivers that are installed with the Guest Additions provide you with extra high and non-standard video modes, as well as accelerated video performance.
In addition, with Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris guests, you can resize the virtual machine's window if the Guest Additions are installed. The video resolution in the guest will be automatically adjusted, as if you had manually entered an arbitrary resolution in the guest's Display settings. - Seamless windows. With this feature, the individual windows that are displayed on the desktop of the virtual machine can be mapped on the host's desktop, as if the underlying application was actually running on the host.
- Generic host/guest communication channels. The Guest Additions enable you to control and monitor guest execution. The "guest properties" provide a generic string-based mechanism to exchange data bits between a guest and a host, some of which have special meanings for controlling and monitoring the guest.
- Time synchronization. With the Guest Additions installed, Oracle VM VirtualBox can ensure that the guest's system time is better synchronized with that of the host.
- Shared clipboard. With the Guest Additions installed, the clipboard of the guest operating system can optionally be shared with your host operating system.
- Automated logins. Also called credentials passing.
Each version of Oracle VM VirtualBox, even minor releases, ship with their own version of the Guest Additions. While the interfaces through which the Oracle VM VirtualBox core communicates with the Guest Additions are kept stable so that Guest Additions already installed in a VM should continue to work when Oracle VM VirtualBox is upgraded on the host, for best results, it is recommended to keep the Guest Additions at the same version.
The Windows and Linux Guest Additions therefore check automatically whether they have to be updated. If the host is running a newer Oracle VM VirtualBox version than the Guest Additions, a notification with further instructions is displayed in the guest.
NOTE: This is an automatically updated package. If you find it is out of date by more than a week, please contact the maintainer(s) and let them know the package is no longer updating correctly.
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.
To verify the files using the project source:
1. Please go to the project source location (https://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/Certificates/) and download the source files;
2. Use Get-FileHash -Path Trusted-OracleCorporationVirtualBox-05308b76ac2e15b29720fb4395f65f38.cer to get the file hash value from both the built file (from step 1 above) and the file from the package and compare them;
Log in or click on link to see number of positives.
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.
Oracle Corporation
This package has no dependencies.
Ground Rules:
- This discussion is only about Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) and the Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) package. If you have feedback for Chocolatey, please contact the Google Group.
- This discussion will carry over multiple versions. If you have a comment about a particular version, please note that in your comments.
- The maintainers of this Chocolatey Package will be notified about new comments that are posted to this Disqus thread, however, it is NOT a guarantee that you will get a response. If you do not hear back from the maintainers after posting a message below, please follow up by using the link on the left side of this page or follow this link to contact maintainers. If you still hear nothing back, please follow the package triage process.
- Tell us what you love about the package or Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install), or tell us what needs improvement.
- Share your experiences with the package, or extra configuration or gotchas that you've found.
- If you use a url, the comment will be flagged for moderation until you've been whitelisted. Disqus moderated comments are approved on a weekly schedule if not sooner. It could take between 1-5 days for your comment to show up.