It also changes the virutal machine’s resolution automatically when its window is resized, so you do not need to change it manually. This makes copying data to and from a host system much more convenient. VirtualBox Guest Additions will give the machine more capabilities, such as a shared clipboard with the host system, drag and drop file transfer, time synchronization, shared folders, automatic window resizing, and more. This is what I ended up with: Section "Screen"įinally, after rebooting the virtual machine once again, the resolution should be fixed to whatever you set it as.If you’re running Linux inside a VirtualBox virtual machine, installing the Guest Additions software will help you get the most out of the system. $ vim /usr/share/X11//nfĬonfigure your monitor however you like. If not, simply create a configuration file. The above will show us if there are any configurations pertaining to monitors. If you reboot and find your resolution is still not fixed, then you may have to manually configure your monitor with Xorg. This includes the drivers, which is what we need to fix monitor resolutions. After reboot, all guest additions will be ready to use. Just mount the virtual cdrom and install the guest additions. $ yum install kernel-devel-3.10.86_64 Mount and Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Now install this kernel-devel before moving on.
You’ll end up with 3.10.86_64 in this case. Find the latest version, something like 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64, and truncate it to the 5XX number. The above will return what is in the /usr/src/kernels directory, which happens to be all of our kernel versions. Finding and Fixing Kernel Issue $ ls /usr/src/kernels Below is a workaround I found for this issue. $ yum install dkms gcc make kernel-devel bzip2 binutils patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headersĪt this point, if we try to mount and install VirtualBox Guest Additions, we’ll run into an issue where the install script cannot find or recognize the kernel. This is basically emulating a CD being inserted into our virtual machine.Ī few commands need to be ran in order to prepare CentOS for the VirtualBox Guest Additions install. Go ahead and attach the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO as a device to the virtual machines storage.Latest would be VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.20 at the time this article was written.
Download the appropriate version of VirtualBox Guest Additions.
Download & Attach VirtualBox Guest Additions
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