See VM's main menu -> Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image. VM -> Settings -> Display -> Acceleration -> Enable 3D AcccelerationĪfter booting the VM, make sure your user is added to the 'vboxsf' group (see the '/etc/group' file, owned by root, editable via 'sudo nano /etc/group' in case you don't want to use 'sudo -a -G vboxsf 'Īfter booting the VM also make sure you install the VBoxGuestAdditions (provided as a separate, mountable. VM -> Settings -> Display -> Video Memory -> Go all the way up to the Max (128Mb) See VM -> Settings -> Motherboard -> Base memory You have 16 Gb RAM ? Give 4 or 8 Gb to the VM. You have an 8 core CPU ? Give 2 or 4 cores to the VM. īefore booting a VM, make sure you 'customize' its Settings, just keep in mind, each VM 'eats' up from your physical resources. NOTE: I suppose you already installed not only the main package but also the Extension's Pack (just making sure). Step 24: Click enter key on our keyboard and it’s going to close what we want to do next is just restart our virtual machine.If you are really sure you installed it (and not just still running as 'Live' from the. Also, it allows you to copy and paste from your desktop into your virtual machine and drag and drop files so all these will be enabled once you install the guest edition CD image. Step 23: Now install this guest edition CD image and what it’s going to allow us to do is full screen and it will give us a proper aspect ratio. Step 22: You can go through all the steps if you’re not familiar with the operating system and it will show you all the features of the operating system. It will ask for your password to log in to your Linux Mint. Step 21: Click on X in the corner, and start the machine again. Step 20: Select the virtual machine over here on the left-hand side, click on Settings, and then go into storage.

Shut down your virtual machine completely. Step 19: Once the installation is complete and is ready to restart. Step 18: Click on Continue, and now it’s going to copy over the files and install them. You can choose the default setting and proceed with the final installation.

Step 17: Continue with the installation wizard. What we want to do is actually double-click on the disk to install the operating system in a virtual drive. Step 16: This is not an installed version, this is just a live version.

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