{"id":8657,"date":"2024-11-12T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:36","slug":"install-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/install-virtualbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Install VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Install VirtualBox\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Video and written instructions for installing <strong>VirtualBox<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"ccms__fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWcMQTa1yRo\" data-caption=\"Setting up VirtualBox\">Video Guide to Installing VirtualBox and Running a Virtual Machine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please complete BOTH of these steps to install VirtualBox:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Download and install the latest VirtualBox<\/strong> for your <strong>host<\/strong> from <strong>virtualbox.org<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2023\/virtualbox-visual-cplusplus-redis-error\/\">VirtualBox Visual C++ Redistributable Error<\/a><br><br><em>This issue has recently appeared on the <strong>Windows<\/strong> installer for <strong>VirtualBox 7.0.1 and newer<\/strong>. It is expected to be resolved in a future VirtualBox installer updates<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Install the VirtualBox Extension Pack:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Download the VirtualBox Extension Pack at: <strong>virtualbox.org<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In VirtualBox, open the Menu Item <em>Preferences&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the <em>Extensions<\/em> tab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the small <em>Add New Package<\/em> button\/icon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Browse to the Extension Pack you just downloaded and follow the instructions to install it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IMPORTANT:<\/span><\/strong> ALL of the SCS Virtual Machines require the Extension Pack, which provides critical tools and drivers for the Virtual Machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video and written instructions for installing VirtualBox: Video Guide to Installing VirtualBox and Running a Virtual Machine Please complete BOTH of these steps to install VirtualBox:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technicalsupport","category-virtualmachines-support"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18139,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/18139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}