Save the Guest Additions ISO on your host computer along with the Ubuntu ISO. Restart, test! The Shared Folder will be accessible, as expected, if all the parameters above are correct. Make sure you have the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO for your version of. Then edit /etc/modulesas root, and add this line at the end: vboxsf.It will be called VirtualBox Guest Additions. You will see a virtual CD drive has been mounter. Next, open File Explorer inside the Windows VM. On the menu bar, go to Devices>Insert Guest Additions CD Image. First, edit /etc/fstab as root ( sudo vi /etc/fstab) and add this line at the end - use either tab or space(s) to separate the parameters: shared /home//shared vboxsf defaults 0 0 Open VirtualBox and start your Windows VM.Shared Folders : The guest additions also enable you to make folders that can be accessed by the virtual machine as network shares. The solution is described in this GitHub Gist by Fortunato Estorgio. With Virtualbox guest additions, that becomes a thing of the past as you can comfortably move your mouse pointer to and from the guest and host OS. While this works, the mount is not permanent and is lost after a reboot. Sudo mount -t vboxsf shared /home//Shared To mount the shared folder manually (you know the drill, replace with your login): mkdir /home//Shared My Shared Folder was configured as below:īut, the KDE File Manager, Dolphin, displays an error banner: Could not enter folder /home//Shared:
#VIRTUALBOX GUEST ADDITIONS DRIVER#
Now the VirtualBox Shared Clipboard is working, as is the display driver (I guess), but not the VirtualBox Shared Folder.
#VIRTUALBOX GUEST ADDITIONS INSTALL#
Install VirtualBox additions via the virtual CD per normal.Īlternatively sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-dkms Sudo apt install build-essential kde-plasma-desktop I’m also installing KDE using SDDM as the display manager, which you don’t have to! sudo apt upgrade Install a brand new VirtualBox VM using, with on-line installer and security updates.Īfter login, upgrade and install build-essentials and reboot.
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Initially I thought that is needed is to install the build-essential package. Please install the gcc make perl packages from your distribution. This time however, I got errors during the install - though it’s not very clear that there was a problem: This system is currently not set up to build kernel modules. I had issues with VirtualBox guest additions, and this is how I solved it. I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) (dated 23 April 2020), with the intention of creating a VM using VirtualBox 6.0.22 (released ).