Questions tagged [guest-additions]
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How do I install Guest Additions in a VirtualBox VM?
I've recently installed Ubuntu on Oracle's Virtualbox. Now I want to install the guest additions.
I started up my Ubuntu guest OS, clicked "Devices" and chose "Install Guest Additions". Nothing ...
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Unable to Install Guest Additions CD Image on Virtual Box
Error when I clicked on Insert GuestAdditions CD Image from "Devices"
Unable to insert the virtual optical disk /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso into the machine ...
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VirtualBox 4.12 Shared clipboard not working in Ubuntu14.04
My Shared clipboard has stopped working all of a sudden after a dist-upgrade. I tried re installing guest additions but it doesn't seem to work. I've checked that "Bidirectional clipboard" was enabled....
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VirtualBox - how to increase video memory?
I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on VirtualBox, including the guest additions.
However, the display is really slow. Looking at the display settings I can see that the video memory is only 12MB but ...
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Unable to mount VirtualBox Guest Additions as a guest (Win7 host)
I keep getting this error dialog with an Unable to mount error E_FAIL ( 0x80004005 ) when I try to mount Guest Additions:
I tried the Force Unmount, but that just closes the dialog with no action ...
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Unable to install guest additions: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660'
Running Ubuntu 14.04 on Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.24 and completely stuck with mounting guest additions. I've spent quite a time looking for a solution online, but nothing helped...
As suggested below, I'...
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Error building main Guest Additions Module while installing VirtualBox guest additions
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Guest on Ubuntu 12.04 Host using VirtualBox. Everything is from repository and no direct install. When I install the guest additions, the below error is shown in the ...
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VirtualBox kernel modules do not match the version of VirtualBox
The VirtualBox 4.2.12 on Ubuntu 12.04 was running fine till I needed to install guest additon. After its installation:
Failed to open a session for the VM Win 7 exit code 1;
RTR3Init failed with ...
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How do I display the whole desktop in Virtual Box fullscreen mode?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 in VirtualBox 4.2.6 on a Windows 7 host. After installing Ubuntu I wanted to get the VB interface in fullscreen. I therefore installed guest additions from Virtual Box ...
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How to use ubuntu server full screen in virtualbox?
I have installed Ubuntu server 12.4 in Oracle Virtual box, after completing installation, i cant use the Ubuntu server in full screen,guest additions present in virtual box will work in ubuntu server....
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Is there something like "VirtualBox Guest Additions" for QEMU/KVM?
I run some Ubuntu VMs in QEMU/KVM with virt-manager as the GUI. The one thing I really miss from VirtualBox though is the ability to install "Guest Additions" which would allow a shared clipboard and ...
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Installing Guest Additions causing problems [duplicate]
I am trying to install Guest Additions in VirtualBox with Windows XP host and Ubuntu 12.04 guest. I followed the above steps:
Devices-> Insert Guest Additions CD Image.
After that I locate the ...
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Unable to mount the CD/DVD image on VirtualBox
I'm trying to develop a website in Python, and have installed VirtualBox on my Ubuntu 13.04 host. The VirtualBox is running an Ubuntu 13.04 Django stack.
I need to be able to edit the files within my ...
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Unable to install virtual box guest additions on Lubuntu 16.04
I am unable to install virtual box guest additions in Lubuntu 16.04
My following is my terminal screenshot:
When I type in terminal ./autorun.sh
I get the following output:
Linux guest additions ...
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install virtualbox guest addition terminal
I would like to install Virtualbox guest addition using the terminal. Because that is most easy to reproduce and to document. On the server I have Ubuntu 12.04.2. LTS I have Virtualbox 4.3.16
I have ...
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Removing default Virtualbox guest additions?
I don't want guest additions.
I have Virtualbox on a Windows host running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as a guest. How do I make sure that all the guest additions are removed from the Ubuntu guest? I so far ...
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Workaround to re-install guest additions after every kernel update
I have a working VM with ubuntu under virtual box. Everything works fine, but there's a detail that's getting on my nerves.
Every time i receive a kernel update, i have to re-install virtual box's ...
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Why do Guest Additions need kernel headers in VirtualBox 4.04.?
I'm trying to install the Guest Additions in VirtualBox 4.04.on ubuntu 11.10
I have this error:
The headers for the current running kernel were not found.
If the module compilation fails then this ...
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Unable to insert the virtual optical disk (VBoxguestaddition) in virtual machine for ubuntu server in win 10
I am new in this kind of environment and I want to learn this. This is started once I install VirtualBox-5.2.18-124319-Win and successfully installing ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64 in that virtual ...
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Guest Additions not working
I am having really annoying problem and have spent hours trying to fix. I have searched ad nauseum and found others with same problem but none of the solutions work. I go to Devices to Install Guest ...
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VirtualBox 4.3 Guest Additions on OSX guest [closed]
Im running virtual box 4.3 on ubuntu 13.10, everything goes fine with windows guests but for Mac osx (Mountain Lyon) I just cant find how to install Guest additions. Seems like there's no osx ...
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admin no longer has access to shared folder
So over the weekend I arrive to work, boot my PC and run the virtualbox session of Ubuntu but now I get the message:
The folder contents could not be displayed
You do not have the permissions ...
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Experiencing small resolution issue in Ubuntu 14.04.2 with VirtualBox, getting stuck on installing guest additions
TL;DR: I'm experiencing the small resolution issue in Ubuntu 14.04.2 on VirtualBox, and when I try to follow the answers to existing questions, either it doesn't solve the problem or I encounter ...
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VBox shared folders not mounted after Upgrade to Ubuntu 18 LTS
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18 LTS, after that I can't see shared folders content as they are not mounted under /media ... I tried to restart service with :
sudo systemctl restart vboxadd-service....
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VirtualBox gives incorrect keybindings
I installed the 11.10 VirtualBox image from http://virtualboxes.org/images/ubuntu/ on my Windows 8 Developer Preview x64 machine running VirtualBox 4.1.8.
I've previously installed it manually from ...
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Opening applications on Windows 10 Virtual Machine from Ubuntu 23.04/23.10 with VBoxManage guestcontrol
VBoxManage guestcontrol [vmname] run/start
I managed to open Calculator on my Windows 10 guest VM from my Ubuntu 23.04 host using the command:
VBoxManage guestcontrol $MY_VM_NAME run --exe "C:\\...
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Installing guest additions Ubuntu 16.04 | Kernel configuration is invalid?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 as a guest system in Windows 8.1 (VirtualBox) and I'm trying to install the guest additions in order to activate 3D acceleration. However, I get the following error messages:
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Building VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Ubuntu 20.04 VM fails
I am trying to build VirtualBox Guest additions since a few hours an a Ubuntu20.04 VM, but it keeps on failing. Installing it via Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image fails. /var/log contains
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Graphics glitches in VirtualBox Ubuntu guest when 3D acceleration is enabled
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 as a VirtualBox guest on a Windows 10 host machine, I've installed and re-installed guest additions by following the instruction on this page. The drivers appear to be ...
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Virtual box guest addition missing and can't be downloaded
I downloaded VirtualBox from ubuntu software center and install there windows XP 32 bit. Now when I'm trying to install guest additions it's saying that guest addition is missing and is asking ...
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Error in installing Virtualbox guest additions iso file mount
I have install Virtualbox 4.0.4-OSE on my Ubuntu 11.04.
I want to install the guest additions of Virtualbox. but I've gotten this error:
Failed to open the CD/DVD image /home/bigbang/.VirtualBox/...
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Why does Lubuntu not allow me to run the Virtual Box Guest Additions?
On most up-to-date Ubuntu flavours that I install in VMs in Virtual Box when I choose the option to Insert Guest Additions CD image... I am shortly asked if I wish to run what is one there, and when I ...
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How to change to cd rom drive in terminal Ubuntu 13.04
How do you switch to the directory where the CD-ROM is? I am at
name@name-virtualbox:-S
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On Ubuntu 19.10's guest virtual machine, the login screen does no longer show up after installing VirtualBox Guest Additions, on host Arch Linux
Specs
Guest: Ubuntu 19.10;
Host: Arch Linux;
VirtualBox 6.0.14;
On host Arch Linux, I have virtualbox-host-modules-arch installed.
| DE | KDE Plasma 5.17.0 |
| CPU | AMD ...
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How to not install virtualbox addition in ubuntu-server 12.04?
First when I finished installing ubuntu-server 12.04, I made a snapshot then I updated my server like so
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
I think the guest addition via the ubuntu-...
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"The make utility was not found" - error when installing VirtualBox guest additions on Lubuntu from the CD
I installed Lubuntu as a guest OS in VirtualBox, and I tried installing the guest additions as I would in Windows, from "Devices->Insert Guest Additions CD Image... (Host+D)", and then running the ...
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VirtualBox Guest Additions won't install
I'm trying to configure my virtual machine so I can share a folder between my host and guest OS, but when I try to install the Guest Additions I get the following message:
I've already done ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 update + VirtualBox VM 4.1.14 r77440 - No input
I can only enter my password with the keyboard and this is what I see after I login
If I try to switch to a terminal with CtrlAlt+F1 I get this
I don't have a clue how to fix this, or if it's ...
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Process to install Virtual Box Guest Additions Virtual Box [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Server (guest machine) on VirtualBox having Windows 7 as host machine.
Could you please tell me the whole process to install Virtual Box Guest Additions or provide me with ...
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Virtualbox guest additions installed but not working - version conflict
This is my setup.
Host Guest
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Kali Linux Gnome 3.22.2
3.11.0-26-generic ...
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VBox 16.04 guest upgraded to 18.04: shared folders are wrong
I have performed an in-place upgrade of a working lubuntu 16.04 virtualbox guest with shared folders (using VBoxGuestAdditions-5.2.18), upgrading to 18.04.
Things went smoothly until I discovered the ...
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Problem with 'copy-paste' and 'shared folders' in VirtualBox Ubuntu 14.04
I have Windows 7 as the host OS, VirtualBox 5.0.2 and Ubuntu 14.04 as a guest OS.
Right after I install Ubuntu the window resize works correctly, but I can't use 'copy-paste' and 'shared folders' ...
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How to pass shell arguments with VBoxManage guestcontrol?
I run a command from the host machine on the guest machine (both Ubuntu) as
VBoxManage guestcontrol Ubuntu1 run --exe "script.sh" --username xx --password xx --wait-stdout
where the shell script on ...
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Problem with installing VBox guest additions in 13.10 (shared folders)
I am using 13.10 for both the host and guest. The host has the guest additions iso. While installing the guest additions, I encounter an error when trying to compile the shared files module. The ...
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How to install VBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu 12.10
Unable to install VBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu. It shows some problem woth Linux Header.
PS: I am using ubuntu 12.10 guest on Windows8 Host. When I tried installing it I got following:-
Verifying ...
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how to fix partial black screen on virtual box ubuntu linux
black screen
I have tried reinstalling linux and guest additions but so far nothing and i can't find anything online.
The only things i can do is click on the side bar but when i try and use the ...
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Visual GUI no keyboard/mouse input possible
I think I somehow broke my visual GUI of my ubuntu-16.04.3 LTS. It does not accept neither keyboard nor mouse interaction anymore (and doesn't show the mouse pointer at all).
I'm running the OS inside ...
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Virtualbox guest additions installation fails for shared folder support! [duplicate]
I am trying to setup Ubuntu guest OS on a Windows host system.After creating the new virtual machine, I am trying to install the guest additions and I am running sudo sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run but ...
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Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 in VirtualBox 4.2.12
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 in VirtualBox (4.2.12) on a Windows host.
Initial installation works but after installing Guest Additions, VirtualBox always crashes during login.
I tried to ...
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Resizable screen mode for VirtualBox behaves strange with Ubuntu as guest
I have Ubuntu both as guest and as host. I use VirtualBox 4, just downloaded from the official repository. After installing the guest extensions, I got this strange problem:
When I activate the ...