installing latest versions of guest additions virtualbox

Removing installed version 5.2.6 of VirtualBox Guest Additions. Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.2.8 Guest Additions for Linux. Execute commands to install the latest VirtualBox guest additions on your system. Your system is ready to run the installer. Using below command this will be mounted on /media directory. Mount the guest additions image CDROM on your system in read-only mode. Make sure the configured directory exist with proper source code. sudo export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r` In my case, the latest kernel source is available in 2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 directory under /usr/src/kernels/. Set the KERN_DIR environment variable to the kernel source code.

# On Fedora 29/28/27/26/25 # dnf install make gcc dkms bzip2 perl kernel-headers kernel-devel # On CentOS/RHEL 7/6 # yum install make gcc perl dkms bzip2 kernel-headers kernel-devel You also need to install some additional packages on your system including kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages. # On Fedora 29/28/27/26/25 # dnf update kernel*Īfter upgrading the kernel, you must reboot your virtual machine.

# On CentOS/RHEL 7/6 # sudo yum update kernel* To upgrade kernel just execute one of the followings commands on system terminal. Upgrade your system to use the latest available kernel. Execute one of the below commands to enable yum repository. Step 1 – Prerequisitesįirst of all, Enable the EPEL release yum repository on your Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL systems. This tutorial is to help you with the installation of VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 27/26, CentOS/RHEL 7/6.

I recommend to install or upgrade VirtualBox latest version first. So you need to install on each Virtual Machines running on your system. It is installed inside the Guest operating system. The VirtualBox Guest Additions provides some device drivers and application for the optimization of performance and usability of Guest operating systems.

Installing latest versions of guest additions virtualbox