The Oracle VM Guest Additions are 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 detail on the installation, configuration and use of the Oracle VM Guest Additions.