Prepare your Windows host
| Environment | Hypervisor Type |
|---|---|
| Running WSL | bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto |
| Running Virtualbox | bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off |
Install Guest Addition
You may need to install/re-install Virtualbox Guest Addition in case Copy/Paste doesn’t work.
- Ubuntu Version: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
- VirtualBoxVersion: 6.1.28
- For a detailed description look here
- Guest Addition should be mounted on /media/helmut/VBox_GAs_6.1.28
- Step 1: sudo apt install gcc make flex bison
- Step 2: sudo apt install linux-headers-generic
- Step 3: sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
- Step4 : reboot system
root@kubemaster:/home/helmut/Desktop# apt install gcc make flex bison Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bison is already the newest version (2:3.5.1+dfsg-1). flex is already the newest version (2.6.4-6.2). gcc is already the newest version (4:9.3.0-1ubuntu2). make is already the newest version (4.2.1-1.2). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded. root@kubemaster:/home/helmut/Desktop# sudo apt install linux-headers-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done linux-headers-generic is already the newest version (5.4.0.90.94). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded. root@kubemaster:/home/helmut/Desktop# mount |grep -i VBox /dev/sr0 on /media/helmut/VBox_GAs_6.1.28 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500,fmode=400,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks2) root@kubemaster:/media/helmut/VBox_GAs_6.1.28# ls AUTORUN.INF NT3x TRANS.TBL VBoxLinuxAdditions.run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe autorun.sh OS2 VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe cert runasroot.sh VBoxDarwinAdditionsUninstall.tool VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe windows11-bypass.reg root@kubemaster:/media/helmut/VBox_GAs_6.1.28# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.1.28 Guest Additions for Linux........ VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 6.1.28 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-40-generic Copying additional installer modules ... Installing additional modules ... VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting. VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules. This may take a while. VirtualBox Guest Additions: To build modules for other installed kernels, run VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup <version> VirtualBox Guest Additions: or VirtualBox Guest Additions: /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 5.11.0-40-generic. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-40-generic VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until the system is restarted
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