The virtualbox guest additions should be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed. How to install virtualbox guest additions in ubuntu. The guest additions will optimize the guest operating system for better performance and enhance usability. After installing guest additions, on some, older guests you might need to restart the guest. For a thorough introduction to virtualization and virtualbox. This tutorial guides you through the process of creating and setting up an ubuntu virtual machine vm on virtualbox, an opensource software that allows virtualization. How to install virtualbox guest additions on ubuntu 18.
In this article, we will examine how to install ubuntu 18. How to install virtualbox and guest additions in ubuntu. How to install virtualbox guest additions on a guiless. How to install guest additions enable fullscreen etc. In the guest virtual machine, choose devices install guest additions from the menubar of virtualbox. Ubuntu details of package virtualboxguestadditionsiso. On your computer not on a virtualbox guest, go to the virtualbox downloads page and download the virtualbox n. Virtualbox ships with an image iso file called vboxguestadditions.
The virtualbox guest additions gives a performance boost and extra features to your hosts. Virtualbox guest additions installation in ubuntu, linux mint, debian. On the host not the guest download a virtualbox package from. Now, either load the iso through optical drives choose disk image option if we have download the iso manually or else, go with insert guest additions cd image if we have downloaded guest additions iso through os repositories. There is a guest additions package, but this only enabled some of the features for me the most reliable way is probably to use the builtin installer that comes with virtualbox. Failing to find it, it may give you an opportunity to download the file from the. Run the virtual machine next, and click on devices available on virtualbox menu. Installing virtualbox guest additions on ubuntu 18. It makes using ubuntu in virtual machine a lot easier.
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