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VirtualBox is a great way to run other operating systems on your PC without having to partition the disk, fiddle around with boot managers, and other technical matters, all of which can cause problems if not carried out properly. When an operating system is installed into VirtualBox it runs as a virtual machine. It is a sort of PC simulator or emulator and the guest OS that is installed, such as Windows, Linux and so on, runs in a window on the desktop like regular software apps. VirtualBox is great for testing software because it runs in the virtual machine and does not affect, or infect in the case of malware, the rest of the PC.ĭownloading and installing VirtualBox is easy and the software is free.

Linux distros are free and work great in virtual machines. You can even download Windows for free and run it in VirtualBox. Running software in an operating system running on a virtual machine (emulator/simulator) on top of an operating system like Windows can be quite good. It is not like running apps on the desktop, but apps do run quite quickly in virtual machines. However, sometimes VirtualBox performance sucks. Menus open slowly, buttons react slowly when clicked, apps load and run slowly and it can all be very irritating. Here are some tips to boost VirtualBox performance and Linux, Windows and other guest operating systems running smoothly. VirtualBox and virtual machines make heavy use of the disk and the speed of the disk is a big factor affecting the performance of Linux or Windows running as a guest OS. Upgrading an old style mechanical disk drive to a solid state drive is one of the best ways to make the computer faster. Go to the CD Driver and click install the exe file to bring up guest addition install wizard.Ħ.It is almost like getting a new computer. Open Computer, you’ll see CD Driver marked as ‘VirtualBox Guest’.Ĥ. Set Virutalbox settings for Linux: Run Gnu/Linux in Virtualbox Type in terminal window: ssh 127.0.0. If you don’t see the Guest window menu, press right- Ctrl + C on keyboard.ģ. Boot up the Guest OS (Windows 7 in the case), and then go to menu Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image. Enable ‘Read-only’ if you DON’T want to add/edit the folder files in Guest.Ģ.

Folder Name, auto generated after chosen folder.

Folder Path, choose a folder in the Host OS to share with.

Click ‘Adds new shared folder’ button in the right.

Navigate to Shared Folders in left pane.

In Virtualbox (6.0.8 in the case), open Settings of the Windows Guest OS. And this can be done via Shared Folder feature.ġ. One of the top things after installed a virtual machine via VirtualBox is how to transfer files between host OS and guest OS. This quick tutorial shows how to share a folder in Virtualbox Ubuntu host and get access within Windows virtual machine.