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Overcome the limitations for mouse support described in This chapter describes the Guest Additions in detail.

Your life much easier by providing closer integration between hostĪnd guest and improving the interactive performance of guest

For any seriousĪnd interactive use, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions will make Installing operating systems in a virtual machine. The previous chapter covered getting started with Oracle VM VirtualBox and Controlling Virtual Monitor Topology 4.11.1. Using the Guest Control File Manager 4.9. Using Guest Properties to Wait on VM Events 4.8. Hardware 2D Video Acceleration for Windows Guests 4.6. Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9) 4.5.2. Guest Additions for Oracle Solaris 4.2.4. Installing and Maintaining Guest Additions 4.2.1. ­VirtualBox guest additions is a great way to enhance the performance and improve your experience using VirtualBox, there were two easy ways to install guest addition, follow what you are comfortable with.Table of Contents 4.1. Now reboot your virtual machine because there were some changes in the kernel. sudo mkdir /mnt/my_cdīe sure to cd into the / mnt/my_cd directory, and execute guest additions installation script using as root. Open a terminal, create a new directory to be a mount point for the CD image we just attached, and mount /dev/cdrom in that directory. Update your apt package list and upgrade all of your software (run these commands in a terminal): sudo apt updateĪttach Guest additions CD image from the Devices menu. Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Using the Command-Line Now reboot your machine again for changes to take effect.

Wait for installation to complete and hit enter. You just need to open devices menu within VirtualBox, and then select insert guest addition CD image.Īfter that Ubuntu will automatically mount the CD, and it will ask you whether you want to execute an automatic software, select run. If you installed VirtualBox the standard way, then you have an empty virtual optical drive. Sudo apt install build-essential dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r) Then install some packages that are necessary for installing guest additions. You need to update your apt package list and upgrade all the software installed on your machine: sudo apt update Open a terminal either graphically or by pressing t while holding both Ctrl and Alt keys. Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Using the GUI