Updating VirtualBox Guest Additions

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Matt9000
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Updating VirtualBox Guest Additions

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How do you go about updating VirtualBox Guest Additions on a Linux client running on a Windows host?
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Re: Updating VirtualBox Guest Additions

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In the usual way? As described in chapter 4 of the user manual?
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Re: Updating VirtualBox Guest Additions

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ok. Thank you. I had some problems installing the newest version of Guest Additions, version 6.1.20, and I had to downgrade to the last one that I had working. I was not sure if I had done something wrong. I had downloaded the new version of Guest Additions, 6.1.20, from the VirtualBox website and installed it on my Windows host by opening the package and installing it in the usual way but there was an error installing it so I had to downgrade Guest Additions to the last working version I had to get my Linux Ubuntu Desktop VM to boot and work.
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