That’s it, you’ve now installed VirtualBox Extension Pack and you are ready to use it. Confirm that you wish to add and install the VirtualBox Extension Pack and authenticate with an admin login if necessary.Click the + plus button to add an extension to VirtualBox and then navigate to the freshly downloaded VirtualBox Extension Pack file.Go to the VirtualBox Preferences by pulling down the VirtualBox menu and choosing “Preferences” (Note this is app preferences, different from VM Settings).Open VirtualBox if you have not done so already.Go to and download the latest version of VirtualBox Extension Pack, placing it somewhere you can easily find.Before doing anything else, update VirtualBox. You’ll want to make sure you’re running the latest version of VirtualBox to be able to run and successfully install the latest VirtualBox Extension Pack. How to Install VirtualBox Extension Pack in VirtualBox The screenshots here are showing MacOS, but the process is basically the same in the other environments for VirtualBox.

If everything went well, you can now use the additional functionality provided by the VirtualBox Guest Additions.This article will detail how to install VirtualBox Extension Pack in VirtualBox on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Run the install script sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions/n Make a place to mount the iso and then mount it.

Yum install dkms Install the guest additions You also need dkms from the epel repository yum install epel-release Get all the stuff required to build the VirtualBox Guest additions yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' Now reboot to make sure you are are running the latest kernel. Specifically you want to the latest kernel otherwise your VirtualBox modules might be built for the wrong kernel version: yum update

(Screenshot coming soon) In The CentOS VMĮverything here needs to be done as root so either log in as root or put “sudo” in front of every command. In the VirtualBox VM manager, load this iso into the optical drive of the CentOS VM. In the host OS (not in the CentOS VM) go to /virtualbox and navigate to your version of VirtualBoxĭownload the VBoxGuestAdditions_.iso. First you need to find the Virtual box guest additions iso.

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