Chapter 3 Using the Oracle VM Guest Additions

Oracle VM Guest Additions is a set of packages that can be installed on the guest operating system of a virtual machine running in the Oracle VM environment. These packages provide the tools to allow bi-directional communication directly between the Oracle VM Manager ; and the operating system running within the virtual machine. This is a powerful tool that provides administrators fine-grained control over the configuration and behavior of components running within the virtual machine directly from Oracle VM Manager.

This chapter gives you more detail on the installation, configuration and features of the Oracle VM Guest Additions.