A newer version of this article is availabe, which covers the topic of how to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”. On the 21st of April 2022, the Ubuntu team released the successor Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”. This article explains how to install the VirtualBox guest additions in an Ubuntu virtual machine.
Besides automatically adjusting the screen resolution, you also get support for a bi-directional clipboard and shared folders. You can use the below command for that.Bummed that you can’t change the screen resolution in your freshly installed Ubuntu virtual machine? An easy fix exists for this: You just need to install the VirtualBox guest additions in your Ubuntu virtual machine. In the same way, select Drag & Drop and choose the Bidirectional option.įinally, to apply the changes made by the Virtualbox Guest Additions and getting its features on the Guest, simply restart the system. Step 6: Enable Share Clip and Drag & Drop featuresĬlick on the Devices given in the Oracle VirtualBox menu and then click Share Clipboard and select “Bidirectional”. Now, in your terminal mount the CDROM that contains the script to install Virtual Guest Additions on Rocky Linux sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom Go to the Virtualbox menu > Device and then select the “Install Guest Additions CD Image…” option. Step 4: Insert Install Guest Additions CD Image Thus, it is better to run the Kernel update command before restarting the system sudo dnf update kernel-*
Give your permission to install by typing Y and hit the Enter Key.Īlthough, the system will perform the update of the kernel automatically to make the changes, however, sometimes it may not. sudo dnf install gcc make perl kernel-devel kernel-headers bzip2 dkms
The next thing is with the help of the EPEL repository we will install several tools kernel and DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) to build and install the Kernel module required to install the Guest Addition feature VirtualBox on AlmaLinux 8 distro. Open Command terminal and first-run system update command that is: sudo dnf updateĪfter that add the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, in short, known as EPEL using a simple command: sudo dnf install epel-release Well, set up Guest Additions on the Rocky Linux we need EPEL repo & DNF manager, purely command line. Step 7: Confirm Guest Additions VirtualBox Guest Additions installation on Rocky Linux 8
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