![]() You need to mount the image on the Linux VM, so that you can install VirtualBox Guest Additions from it. You need this image to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions themselves onto your VM, so you can either download it to your Linux VM and mount it there, or (which is what I did) download it to your Mac OS X host and mount it in the DVD drive using the VirtualBox Manager. ![]() So for example for version 4.1.6 the VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.6.iso is located at Usefully Oracle don’t tell you in their guide, but it is available with the rest of the downloads at Sudo apt-get install dkms Where to find VBoxGuestAdditions.iso ![]() The below example uses APT that comes with Debian-based distros: sudo apt-get update This part is relatively straightforward, just install using whatever package manager your Linux distribution has. There is a manual page for installing Guest Additions but not all of it is self-explanatory…įirst you need to log into your Linux virtual machine (VM) and install/configure x, y and z. In order to access certain aspects of a virtual machine in VirtualBox, you will need to install Guest Additions (similar to VMWare Tools I guess)
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