Read through the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL) and click I Agree.
Note that taking the default is not always correct for any given step.įollow these instructions to install VirtualBox and Microsoft Windows on your Intel-based Macintosh computer running Mac OS X. Here is a summary of the steps you need to follow in order, followed by the detailed instructions for each step. If you found this page, then you are probably in the situation where you need to be able to run Windows-only software on your Macintosh computer.
Step 5: Set the graphics controller to VBoxSVGA (skip this step if you want, explanation below) This should be selected automatically after installing the guest additions but just to make sure you want to click on the same monitor/screen icon in step 3 and select "Auto-Resize guest display" if there isn't already a check next to it. Step 4: Make sure Auto-Resize guest display is selected Then click on Virtual Screen 1 and select 100%. You do this by clicking on the tiny monitor/screen icon on the bottom right of the VM window. To make sure you're scale is set to 100% (mine was set to 200% from previously trying to fix resolution issues so yours may already be at 100%). Go to applications > right click VirtualBox > Show Package Contents > expand Resources folder > then right click VirtualBoxVM application file > click on Get Info > then you'll see a check box that says "Open in low resolution". Step 2: Setting VirtualBox VM to open in low resolution (don't worry, by low resolution I believe it just means lower than the Retina display resolution, not that its going to be in a terrible resolution once you set this, mine looks great). Once it's installed the features that are useful for the next steps are all automatically applied.
It's pretty easy and there are tutorials on how to do this. Step 1: Install guest additions for VirtualBox. Posting because it took awhile searching through various forums how to speed VB up so I thought a consolidated post could help some other beginners out. VirtualBox seemed to run slow but I found the solution was actually to do with resolution.
I'm using a Macbook Pro 16" and using VirtualBox 6.1 to run Ubuntu 20, I have installed Guest Additions on Ubuntu. Note: this is not a post about running MacOS on VirtualBox, but running VirtualBox on a Mac.