We have now successfully installed the virtual box guest addition on the ubuntu VM. You should see the guest additions have been installed on the terminal screen, and you may hit enter to exit out of the terminal.It will prompt you for authentication, enter the password for your ubuntu account.You should see the CD drive was automatically mounted, and you would get a prompt that says Vbox_Gas_6.x.x contains software intended to be automatically started.In the VirtualBox Devices drop-down, click on Insert Guest Additions CD image.For that reason, you must install VirtualBox guest additions right after you deploy the guest VM.įollow the instruction below to install the guest additions on a ubuntu-desktop. You will end up with many performance issues if you don’t have VirtualBox guest additions are not installed on the Guest VM’s.

And most of the operating systems out there are supported with guest additions. The guest addition is an ISO file located in the VirtualBox installation location. After the installation, you will observe the overall guest operating system performance is improved. You can think of VirtualBox guest additions as a VirtualBox driver for the guest machine. Test the VirtualBox shared folder access.Connect the shared folder to the VirtualBox.Steps to configure Virtualbox shared folder. We are going to do just that in the lab as a step-by-step guide. You should be able to see them in the guest operating system. In that, you create a folder and share the folder via VirtualBox settings. The second and easiest way is to share the folder with the help of VirtualBox guest addition. So your host machine must have reachability to the guest VM. The first option is to create a folder in the windows machine and share permission to the user, and from Ubuntu, you try to access the shared folder using the smb protocol via the host and guest networking.

There are different ways you can create a folder in a windows machine and share it with the virtual machines. How do I create a shared folder between Windows and virtual machines?

Can I share entire hard disk drive to Guest VM in VirtualBox?.

Test the VirtualBox shared folder access. Connect the shared folder to the VirtualBox.

Steps to configure Virtualbox shared folder.

How do I create a shared folder between Windows and virtual machines?.

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