When you first setup a VirtualBox PC you might find the drivers are missing. These are not easy to find unless you know where they are.
Where are the drivers?
- The windows Files are on a iso file which might not be present until you install "Guest Additions"
- C:\Program files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
- So you mount this image which has the drivers.
- see https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
- I have also found that the drivers that are supplied do not cover all operating systems.
** Notes of the CD **
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions
- Where have the Windows drivers gone?
The Windows Guest Additions drivers were removed from this directory to save space on your hard drive. To get the files you have to extract them from the Windows Guest Additions installers: - To extract the 32-bit drivers to "C:\Drivers", do the following:
VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86 /extract /D=C:\Drivers - For the 64-bit drivers:
VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64 /extract /D=C:\Drivers - Note: The extraction routine will create an additional sub directory with the selected architecture (x86 or amd64) to prevent mixing up the drivers.
- To get further help with the command line parameters of the installer,
type: VBoxWindowsAdditions-<arch> /?
Notes
- The video drivers are present but the network card is not. The link below suggest changing the network card hardware type until you find one that works.
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1106684
- "In the Virtualbox Control Panel thing (where you can specify your machines hardware configuration), you click on the network adapter category and then change the interface type. There are four to select from. Simply try a different interface type until one works. I didn't need to give windows any drivers for the PCnet-PCI II device (the screenshot shows the PCnew-FAST III device, and that's what I use on my home computer... this other persons computer...well, it probably would have worked too, but the I picked the PCI device out of the list of four available and it work with no issues or prompts to install any drivers). "
- Try "PCnet-PCI II device"
- Intel Pro/1000 MT (82540EM)