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Downloads:

37,778

Downloads of v 6.0.10:

549

Last Update:

16 Jul 2019

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Oracle Corporation

Tags:

virtualbox tools virtualization vm guest

Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install)

This is not the latest version of Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) available.

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6.0.10 | Updated: 16 Jul 2019

Downloads:

37,778

Downloads of v 6.0.10:

549

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Oracle Corporation

Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.10

This is not the latest version of Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) available.

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3 Passing Tests


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Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

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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:

NOTE

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

  • 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

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'6.0.10'" [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="'6.0.10'" 
$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: '6.0.10'
    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  '6.0.10'
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  = "6.0.10"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'virtualbox-guest-additions-guest.install':
  ensure   => '6.0.10',
  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.

NOTE

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NOTE

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.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 16 Jul 2019.

Description

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.


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

$toolsDir   = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

$i = 0
do {
    $tempPath = Join-Path -Path $env:TEMP -ChildPath ([System.Guid]::NewGuid().ToString())
    $i++
} while ((Test-Path -Path $tempPath) -and ($i -lt 100))

# check we've not hit the count limit
if ($i -ge 100) {
  Write-Error "We couldn't find a temp folder name to create! (count: $i)"
}

# Create the folder
$null = New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $tempPath

$packageArgs = @{
  packageName    = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
  fileFullPath   = Join-Path -Path $tempPath -ChildPath 'vboxadditions.iso'
  destination    = Join-Path -Path $tempPath -ChildPath 'extracted'
  fileType       = 'ZIP'
  url            = 'https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/VBoxGuestAdditions_6.0.10.iso'
  checksum       = 'c8a686f8c7ad9ca8375961ab19815cec6b1f0d2496900a356a38ce86fe8a1325'
  checksumType   = 'sha256'
}

Get-ChocolateyWebFile @packageArgs
Get-ChocolateyUnzip @packageArgs

$binX86Filename = 'VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe'
$binX64Filename = 'VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe'
$installArgs = @{
  packageName = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
  fileType = 'EXE'
  file = Join-Path -Path $packageArgs.destination -ChildPath $binX86Filename
  file64 = Join-Path -Path $packageArgs.destination -ChildPath $binX64Filename
  silentArgs = '/S'
  validExitCodes = @(0)
}

$ahkExe = 'AutoHotKey'
$ahkFile = Join-Path -Path $toolsDir -ChildPath "install.ahk"
Write-Verbose "Running AutoHotkey install script $ahkFile"
$ahkProc = Start-Process -FilePath $ahkExe -ArgumentList $ahkFile -PassThru
Write-Debug "$ahkExe Start Time:`t$($ahkProc.StartTime.ToShortTimeString())"
Write-Debug "Process ID:`t$($ahkProc.Id)"

Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage @installArgs
tools\install.ahk
#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
#NoTrayIcon
; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
SetTitleMatchMode, 1
SetControlDelay -1

winTitle = Windows Security

; Welcome window
WinWait, %winTitle%, You should only install driver software from publishers you trust,, 120
if (Errorlevel) 
{
    Exit 1
}
WinActivate
SendInput !a !i
;ControlClick, &Install, %winTitle%

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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.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 7.0.12 2253 Tuesday, October 17, 2023 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 7.0.10 2063 Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 7.0.8 1721 Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 7.0.6 1761 Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 7.0.4 1377 Friday, November 18, 2022 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 7.0.0 992 Tuesday, October 11, 2022 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.38 1222 Friday, September 2, 2022 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.34 3008 Wednesday, April 20, 2022 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.26 3892 Thursday, July 29, 2021 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.24 351 Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.22 1289 Thursday, April 29, 2021 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.20 286 Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.18 2046 Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.16 2686 Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.14 1112 Saturday, September 5, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.12 1202 Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.10 920 Friday, June 5, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.8 659 Friday, May 15, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.6 765 Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.4 1269 Thursday, February 20, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.2 754 Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.1.0 653 Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.14 1003 Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.12 750 Wednesday, September 4, 2019 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.10 549 Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.8 531 Wednesday, May 15, 2019 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.6 281 Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Approved
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Guest Windows OS (Install) 6.0.4 263 Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Approved
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