Virtualbox Guest Additions Iso Download Windows 2000

I'm trying to set up file sharing between my Mac OS and Windows 98. I think the reason it's not working at the moment is that I haven't installed Guest Additions.

However, Guest Additions .iso is attached in Media Manager. It also looks fine in settings (see screengrabs, correct me if I'm wrong).

Virtualbox Guest additions may install properly, but on windows 10, the Drivers in the Guest will not actually start, as they are currently not working with windows 10. This can be seen if you go into device manager, and look at the Guest Additions driver.

Settings:

In the virtual machine it doesn't automatically run, and if I try to manually run it nothing happens.

Bottom two .exe files don't run in W98, top .exe does nothing if you click on it:

Any ideas?

Will ParkWill Park

1 Answer

VirtualBox Guest Additions don't exist for Windows 98.

VirtualBox Guest Additions work fine for Windows XP.

Modern Macs do not support SMB Network sharing with pre-XP operating systems like Windows 98 (my old Leopard machine did it fine, my new Mavericks machine won't do it at all), otherwise, you could switch on sharing with your Win98 virtual machine, and access files on there in OSX's Finder.

So what's the work around?Make a WinXP virtual machine.Either just use that instead, and use the Guest Additions to share files;Or use WinXP as a middleman - and network your Win98 VM with your WinXP VM, and copy your files from Win98 to WinXP and then to OSX.Most Win98 programs run fine in WinXP, so most people just use WinXP with Guest Additions, and leave it at that.

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VirtualBox from Sun is a great free virtual machine that lets you run multiple operating systems on your PC. Today we take a look at installing the Guest Additions feature which provides enhanced performance of the guest operating system.

Note: For this article we are using version 3.0.2 on a Windows 7 (32-bit) guest OS.

Install Guest Additions for Windows

Guest Additions installs on the guest system and includes device drivers and system applications that optimize performance of the machine. Launch the guest OS in VirtualBox and click on Devices and Install Guest Additions.

The AutoPlay window opens on the guest OS and click on the Run VBox Windows Additions executable.

Click yes when the UAC screen comes up.

Now simply follow through the installation wizard.

During the installation wizard you can choose the Direct3D acceleration if you would like it. Remember this is going to take up more of your Host OS’s resources and is still experimental possibly making the guest unstable.

When the installation starts you will need to allow the Sun display adapters to be installed.

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After everything has completed a reboot is required.

Install Guest Additions for Ubuntu

Download Guest Additions Iso

Note: For this section we are using version 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 8.10(32-bit) version.

If you have Ubuntu running in a virtual machine installing the Guest Additions is easy as well. With the Ubuntu virtual machine running click on Devices and Install Guest Additions.

This will mount the ISO and show an icon on the desktop and give you the following message box where you just click Run.

Guest Additions Virtualbox

Enter in your admin password and click OK.

Next you will see the installation taking place and when done you’ll prompted to click on Enter.

A Reboot of the guest OS is required to complete the installation.

Command Line Installation

If the above process doesn’t work or you want to use the command line to install Guest Additions then first open up a Terminal session.

Now type in the following commands.

cd /media/cdrom

sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

Again a restart of Ubuntu is required from the GUI or type in “sudo reboot”(without quotes) in the command line.

There are a lot of cool features included with the Guest Additions such as clipboard and folder sharing, better video support, and mouse pointer integration which lets you navigate in the guest OS without having it capture the pointer.