How to install MS Office 2010 in Virtual Box Windows VM

Question

I have installed a virtual machine on my Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) laptop using VirtualBox. I have also installed Windows 7 Professional.

I need to be able to access MS Office 2010 using the virtual machine. How do I do this?

Do I need to install Wine and then download MS Office 2010?

If so, how do I then access MS Office 2010 from VirtualBox? Do I open Wine from VirtualBox and access through Wine?

Yikes! I am SO confused!

Melodee

Solution

You can simply install MS Office inside the virtual machine as if it were a normal, standalone windows system. i.e. if you can access the installation files (either on CD/DVD or in an .iso or .exe) from inside the virtual machine you should be able to install Office like normal.

If you have an MS Office installation disc, you need to tell VirtualBox to acknowledge your CD/DVD Drive through the VirtualBox storage settings for your Win7 install. You may find help with this here.

You don't need Wine to install MS Office in your Win7 virtual machine, you just need the appropriate Office installation CD or .exe file to be accessible from the virtual machine itself.

Comments

[Csabi Vidó]

What makes you think that you need Wine? Who suggested that? Wine has nothing to do with managing virtual machines.