
When you open the file and search for ‘VBox’ you will get 4 driver modules: This will write data to the ‘drivers.out’ file. In the ‘Command Prompt’ give the command: driverquery /FO list /v > c:\temp\drivers.out This way a developer can make calls to your VM images by custom created software.Īnother nice thing to check out is to open the ‘Command Prompt’ with cmd.exe on the Windows run-screen. This service provides VBox services to expose the VBox API to your local machine. This can be seen by running the services.msc command in the run-screen +. There is also a Windows service installed. Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections The same adapter can also be found in your control panel setting for Windows 10. This makes it possible to contact the image from your local machine. This adapter is used to be able to make a network on your local machine with the image created that used this adapter. Under the ‘Network adapter’ you should see a new network device called ‘VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter’. Hit + to get the run-screen and type: devmgmt.msc Start by opening the ‘Device Management’ of Windows 10. It’s the USB support for your VM images.Ĭlick ‘Finish’, finalize it all, and immediately start ‘Oracle VM VirtualBox’.

You get this screenshot too when it is a first time installation:Ĭlick ‘Install’ when you see this pop-up during the installation.

Hit the ‘Install’ button to start the installation of the ‘VirtualBox’ software. Get informed and just hit ‘Yes’ We’re not using this API and thus we don’t need any Python installation! Leave all the fields as default and click ‘Next >’ Right-click the file and choose the ‘run as administrator’ option.Ĭlick ‘Next >’ to start the setup procedure.

Go to the VirtualBox download website and hit that download link for the ‘Windows hosts’ for version 7.0.6Īfter a ‘DONE’ download, you will have a file called ‘VirtualBox-7.0.6-155176-Win.exe’ in your download folder. The ‘Oracle Virtual Box’ software downloaded from.A laptop with Windows 10, 16Gb memory, 320Gb SSD and an i7 8-cores CPU.This is the list of ingredients we are going to use: This post is the first part of the series for ‘AppWorks installation in 10 great steps’ Not the hardest thing to do, but nice to also check out what is created during this installation. This guide will help you install Oracle Virtual Box on a local laptop. Welcome to a new installment of AppWorks tips.
