Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 - Manual (Page 19)

2 Installation
As installation of VirtualBox varies depending on your host operating system, we pro-
vide installation instructions in four separate chapters for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
and Solaris, respectively.
2.1 Installing on Windows hosts
2.1.1 Prerequisites
For the various versions of Windows that we support as host operating systems, please
refer to chapter
1.4 , Supported host operating systems , page 16 .
In addition, Windows Installer 1.1 or higher must be present on your system. This
should be the case if you have all recent Windows updates installed.
2.1.2 Performing the installation
The VirtualBox installation can be started
• either by double-clicking on its executable file (contains both 32- and 64-bit
architectures)
• or by entering
VirtualBox.exe -extract
on the command line. This will extract both installers into a temporary directory
in which you’ll then find the usual .MSI files. Then you can do a
msiexec /i VirtualBox-<version>-MultiArch_<x86|amd64>.msi
to perform the installation.
In either case, this will display the installation welcome dialog and allow you to
choose where to install VirtualBox to and which components to install. In addition to
the VirtualBox application, the following components are available:
USB support This package contains special drivers for your Windows host that
VirtualBox requires to fully support USB devices inside your virtual machines.
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