VirtualBox Guest Additions allows users to get some excellent features like "seamless mouse integration", shared folder access etc, between my host (Windows 7) and guest (OpenSuse 11.2), and increase the screen resolution from 800 X 600 to 1024×768. Besides that, the Guest Additions also improve its performance and cooperation with the rest of the Product.

In order to install Virtual Box Guest Additions, firstly you should mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso from within the VirtualBox window. From the menu bar, go to Devices > CD/DVD Devices and select VBoxGuestAdditions.iso.

Next, you will be presented a Window asking whether you want to run the software automatically. Click Run.

Then, you will see the VBoxAdditions_3 icon displayed on your desktop.

In order to install VirtualBox Guest Additions, you got to be in the Root mode. In the console, type “su –“ followed by the administrator password. Then navigate to the media folder and type

“./ VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run install”

This should install the VirtualBox Guest Additions. In order for it to take effect, restart the openSUSE guest OS. You may notice right away after you restarted, your screen resolution has increased to 1024 X 768.

You can download VirtualBox from here.

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Wine is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows.

Installation

To install Wine in OpenSuse, go to Yast software search for wine and install it. You can also install Wine from the terminal as su type zypper in wine. If you want to get the latest updates you need to add the wine repository here

General setup up
For general setup of Wine, firstly you need to install wine. You may refer to the post above. Once it is installed press Allt+F2 and enter winecfg in the text field (you can do the same by entering it in a console)

1. The first window shows the general settings. In the versions field
2. select Windows XP if it is not already selected Under about enter your name, you can leave the organization field empty if you want. You can enter your initials.
3. Set the sounds settings so that only AlSA is selected
4. In the Application tab you can add the applications you often use and set the default windows version for this i use "global settings" but feel free to experiment.
5. You can also add custom paths in the Desktop integration tab

Installing Programs with wine
Installing programs with wine is almost exactly the same as in windows. You just click on the installer .exe file. The first time you do this it is a good idea to right click and choose other enter wine in the field and check remember application choice. Quite often you will not be able to run the latest version with wine. For example the latest version of Photoshop is CS4 but wine will only run up to CS2. [via]

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