Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Vbox Additions Installation for Oracle Linux on Oracle VM VirtualBox

Overview
Vbox Additions offer many features such as shared clipboard, generic host/guest communication channels, and shared folders between host and guest. Click here for all the features.

Vbox Additions Installation
  • On the Oracle VM Virtual Menu bar, click Devices -> Install Guest Additions


  • Open a terminal session as root user. Execute "su root".
  • Ensure that you have internet connection on VM.
  • Perform this step if "public-yum-ol6.repo" is not located in the "/etc/yum.repos.d/" directory. Here is the link for Oracle Public Yum Server.
wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo
yum update
  • Install the following packages necessary for the Vbox Additions installation.
yum install gcc
yum install kernel*
  • Restart VM
  • Double click Vbox Additions Icon on Desktop.
  • Click "Open Autorun Prompt" to install.






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