You can tell VirtualBox to treat a certain host directory as a shared folder, and the program will make it available to the guest operating system as a network share, irrespective of whether guest actually has a network. Shared folders: My favorite feature this feature allows you to exchange files between the host and the guest.Drag and drop: You can also drag and drop files between the host and the guest OS.

Shared clipboard: With the Guest Additions installed, you can copy-paste between the guest and the host operating systems.

Mouse pointer integration: You no longer need to press any key to “free” the cursor from the Guest OS.

Don’t believe me? Here are the important features that the Guest Additions offer: With VirtualBox Guest Additions enabled, using the virtual machine becomes a lot more comfortable. Why should you use VirtualBox Guest Additions? The guest system is the virtual machine you have installed inside your host operating system.īefore you see the steps to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu, let’s first talk about its features. Then I hit the enter and restart the Ubuntu, and those issues I mentioned happen.The host system is your actual operating system installed on your physical system.

I insert the Guest Additions CD Image, then I open the mounted virtual CD drive, then I open a terminal in it and run this command.

I run 'sudo apt install dkms' in terminal.

Here is how I install Guest additions and the log I get in terminal: My Ubuntu version is : Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, The Host is Windows 10 pro 64 bit, VB version is : 6.1 I have installed the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop and Virtualbox.

It looks like the ubuntu get corrupted and I can not right click in maps to open terminal in them, and the screen keeps being small in the left top corner. I am kind of new to the Linux world and I have tried to install virtualbox guest additions several times in the correct way, but I do not know why the final results become like what enter image description hereyou can see in the screenshot I have taken.Īfter that I can not use the OS in virtualbox.

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