The installation will then run through however, after a reboot of the Windows 10 guest, the Guest Additions won’t work. In various forums, you will find the suggestions to install in Windows 8 compatibility mode or use the force parameter (VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe /force). The VirtualBox Guest Additions cannot be installed on this version of Windows Shared folders - like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, Oracle VM VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as 'shared folders', which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.On Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.16, you will get the following error message if you try to install the Guest Additions:.This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize many thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in. USB over RDP - with this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices connected to the RDP client.A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to 'run' the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data. Remote Desktop Protocol - unlike any other virtualization software, Oracle VM VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).Virtual USB Controllers - Oracle VM VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without installing device-specific drivers on the host.

Virtual machine definitions can, therefore, easily be ported to other computers.

Virtual machine descriptions in XML - the configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines.

Oracle VM VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for Oracle VM VirtualBox. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely.

Modularity - Oracle VM VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design.

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