The guest additions is mounted as a virtual CD visible on the launcher: This willīuild and install the vbox kernel modules needed. Prompt" from the right-click context menu as depicted above. Next step is to run the autorun.sh script (as root) on this mountedĬD either by opening the drive or by choosing "Open With Autorun To install the Guest Additions we will have a CD icon on our desktop as soon as the virtual drive is mounted: To install we need to run the installer script n as root or from the Autorun Prompt (see below), iso will be loaded but not installed in your guest OS. Selecting Devices -> Install Guest Additions (or press Host+ D from the Virtual Box Manager) the Guest Additions CD. It is also recommended to have dkms installed (see below - Note 4). In case the Guest Additions fail to build we may have to install the Linux kernel headers (see How do I install kernel header files?) or build-essential tools in addition.
Installing Guest Additions from Virtual Box Manager Guest you will then have access to a CD-ROM with the installer. iso file as a CD in your virtual machine's settings. iso file with an image of the OSE edition of the guest additions CD will install in the host directory /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso.
Install the package virtualbox-guest-additions-iso in the host Ubuntu. In case we have installed the OSE edition of Virtual Box from the repositories we can add the guest additions from the repositories.
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