Installing Ubuntu 12.10 on Virtualbox

Dracula28Dracula28 Member Posts: 232
I have installed Ubuntu on a virtual machine in Virtualbox. But I am having problems understanding how to install guest additions in Ubuntu. How do I do that?
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  • nosoup4unosoup4u Member Posts: 365
    been a while since I've used virtualbox but i believe you can run some commands in the terminal

    Chapter*4.*Guest Additions
    [h=5]Ubuntu[/h]
    1. In order to fully update your guest system, open a terminal and run

      apt-get update as root followed by

      apt-get upgrade
    2. Install DKMS using

      apt-get install dkms
    3. Reboot your guest system in order to activate the updates and then proceed as described above.
  • timmetimme Member Posts: 16 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Dracula28 wrote: »
    I have installed Ubuntu on a virtual machine in Virtualbox. But I am having problems understanding how to install guest additions in Ubuntu. How do I do that?

    As far as I remember, the first step is to go to the Devices menu and click "install guest additions". This should mount the CD.

    Now open terminal:
    cd /media
    ls
    

    You should have a device like cdrom0
    cd cdrom0
    sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
    
  • hazizhaziz Member Posts: 21 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Remember also to install gcc and dkms before running the shell script from the auto-mounted virtualbox guest additions "CD-ROM".
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