▷ How to install virtualbox extension pack

What is VirtualBox Extension Pack

VirtualBox Extension Pack is a series of tool packages that are installed in VirtualBox additionally and allow to increase certain functionalities of the virtualization application.

Like the rest of the program, these extension tools are free and will allow us to install the following features:

USB 2.0 and 3.0 functionality: one of the packs will provide the program to virtualize the support for UBS 2.0 and 3.0. VirtualBox Remote Display Protocol (VRDP): This tool allows to display virtual machines remotely from a computer to be able to control and manage them remotely. Intel PXE ROM - This functionality offers the ability to boot from the network rather than from the virtual hard drive. Disk Encryption: we can also activate the possibility of encrypting virtual hard disks to avoid attacks and theft of NVMe information: it allows support for storage units with the NVMe Host Webcam protocol: if the host has a webcam installed, we can access it from the virtual machine too.

Download and installation of VirtualBox Extension Pack

Let's see now how to locate this VirtualBox Extension Pack to install it on our host computer. This tool pack will be available for both Windows, Linux and MAC hosts.

The first thing we should do, of course, is go to the VirtualBox website. Inside it, we must click on its side menu in the " Downloads " section.

On the new page we will have to go to the " VirtualBox " section Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack ”Here we must give the link“ All supported platforms ”

The VirtualBox Extension Pack download process will start directly

Now let's see how to proceed for installation:

We go to the directory where we have downloaded it and double click on the file that we have downloaded

Immediately the installer will appear and VirtualBox will start. If we have an older pack installed, it will notify us if we want to update it to the most recently downloaded one. What we will have to do is click " Accept " so that the installation process begins.

We download the license information down to accept the terms. It will immediately be installed and the process will have concluded

VirtualBox Extension Pack is compatible with all VirtualBox installations on Windows, Mac and Linux, so we only have to always download this same extension pack.

The process has been quite fast and simple.

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