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→Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows
Note that the list of supported guests is constantly evolving such that an operating system not listed above may still be able to run the VirtualBox Guest Additions. As a general rule, it won't do any harm to try the guest additions even if the guest is not listed as being supported.
== The VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO File ==
The VirtualBox Guest Additions are contained in an ISO image file which is installed on the host system along with the rest of the VirtualBox environment. The location of image file, which is named ''VBoxGuestAdditions.iso'', depends on the host operating system type.
* On Windows based hosts, the file is located in ''C\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox''.
* On Linux hosts the file will, by default, be located in ''/opt/VirtualBox-<version>/additions'' where ''<version>'' represents the installed version of VirtualBox. If an alternate location for VirtualBox was specified during the installation location, then the path will need to be adjusted accordingly.
* On Solaris hosts, assuming the default installation location was selected, the guest additions ISO image will be found in ''/opt/VirtualBox/additions''.
* On Mac OS X hosts, the ISO image file is located in the VirtualBox application bundle. To locate the the file, start the ''Finder'', right click on the VirtualBox icon and select ''Show Package Contents'').
The ISO image contains executable files intended to autorun when the image is mounted as a virtual CD/DVD device on a virtual machine. The correct executable depends on the guest operating system and virtual machine architecture (i.e 32-bit or 64-bit) as outlined below:
Whilst the ISO image file may be manually mounted on a virtual machine as a virtual CD/DVD device, the
== Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows ==
