Installing Guest Additions on Mac

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PTP23
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Installing Guest Additions on Mac

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Step 4 from the Manual:
In the Virtual Media Manager, select the ISO file and click Select button. This mounts the ISO file and presents it to your Windows guest as a CD-ROM.

There is no "Select" button in the Virtual Media Manager, as shown in screenshot.
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Re: Installing Guest Additions on Mac

Post by socratis »

You shouldn't need to select the ISO, you're doing it the wrong way!

With the VM window having the focus, go to the host's menu "Devices" » "Insert Guest Additions CD Image...". Run "VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg".
PTP23 wrote:Step 4 from the Manual:
I noticed that there's no OSX/Darwin specific section for the GAs. Understandable, since they were just added with version 6.0.0. On the to-do list... ;)

Moving to the "OSX Guests" from the "OSX Hosts" area. In there you'll notice a sticky, "OSX GAs (VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg): what is working.". You'll notice in the big, red, bold letters that the GAs are currently broken. But do read it, so you'll know what to expect or not...
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Re: Installing Guest Additions on Mac

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Okay thanks.
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