Comments on: Installing Guest Additions For Ubuntu Guests in VirtualBox

By: Zey

Zey — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0000

Man, thank you so much! you saved my day!

By: Dream

Dream — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:24:42 +0000

Hi Admin!
I’ve installed VBox on Win7 an a Natty-Narwhal Ubuntu into VBox.
I traced: Devices > Install Guest Additions…
No need to download! => VBOXADDITIONS_3.0.8_53138 mounted into ubuntu
(into terminal) I followed:
$ cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.0.8_53138
$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run
OutPut is here:
Verifying archive integrity… All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.0.8 Guest Additions for Linux installation…….
……………………………………………………………………………………..
…………………………………
VirtualBox 3.0.8 Guest Additions for Linux installation
Unable to build the kernel module. see log file.
I take photo of the log file?
it’s here:
http://up.vatandownload.com/images/leeh3mjyzdnwzn470b6i.png

By: Dream

Dream — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:25:42 +0000

By: Sabb

Sabb — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:56:34 +0000

THANKS !
I was tired of failing the installation, I succeeded thanks to you
Sabb

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:14:26 +0000

Hello All,

I would like to thank you for the article, it was helpful for me.

I’d like to add this statement:
For VirtualBox 4.0.4,
Installing ” Guest Additions ” on Ubuntu 10.04
will refer to run the script with this name: ” VBoxLinuxAdditions.run ”

Hope that it helps,
Thanks

By: JT

JT — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:19:26 +0000

Just downloaded VirtualBox 4.04, for OSX. I cannot find a “Device” menu,
only a Virtual Media Manager. The CD/DVD drive does not give me the option
of adding or mounting another .iso file, any ideas guys?

By: MasIs

MasIs — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:52:28 +0000

It’s helping me. I thought I only got the windows version of guest additions. But I weren’t.

By: Ozman

Ozman — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:29:03 +0000

…by the way my host system is a win 7 and 2 clients are backtrack4 and win xp. Over xp guest additions and all drives working perfectly but over BT i m stuck with low graphic resolution. : /

By: Ozman

Ozman — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:26:34 +0000

I m not able to install guest additions on backtrack 4 distro. Which is supposed to be a substitution of ubuntu linux. Even if i push the install button on devices menu nothing will appear.

Any info or suggestion about this situation?

By: Liger_XT5

Liger_XT5 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:55:15 +0000

Thought I’d just do a quick redo of the steps for easy look and use.

1. Open a terminal by pressing ALT-F2 and enter “gnome-terminal” on gnome or “konsole” on KDE.
2. cd /media/(Followed but the Exact name of the disc shown in File Manager. Example: cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.12_68302)
3. sudo bash ./VBoxLinux*
4. It will then ask for an installation location. For me, I had:
“Please specify an absolute path
Usage: install [] | uninstall [force] [no_setup]
Example:
./VoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run install” (This line may be different, but similar)
Input sudo followed by the example:
sudo ./VoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run install

You now have the guest additions installed. Restart and enjoy.