Installing Guest Additions on Catalina 10.15.5

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alangh
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Installing Guest Additions on Catalina 10.15.5

Post by alangh »

Using VirtualBox 6.1.10 r138449 (Qt5.6.3) on a host retina iMac 2019 running Mojave 10.14.6.
The extension pack is installed. I have a VM client with Catalina 10.15.5 installed.
When I try to install Guest Additions in the client, the installer comes up, gets the authorization
password, and tries to install but returns with an error (contact the developer).
I have attached a zipped install log (search it for VBox near the end).
From looking at the log, this appears to be a kext issue. Are there any work arounds?
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paulson
Oracle Corporation
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Joined: 6. Jun 2019, 20:16

Re: Installing Guest Additions on Catalina 10.15.5

Post by paulson »

Someone figured out how to get the GAs installed in a Catalina guest
and described the steps in the following ticket:

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19047#comment:6

But the reports are that the functionality is still not available
afterwards. The VirtualBox manual does state that MacOS X guests are
classified as an "experimental feature":

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14. ... alFeatures

So probably have to wait further for Catalina GAs functionality.
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