Guest Addition won't install on Big Sur Public Beta VM

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RandyB
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Guest Addition won't install on Big Sur Public Beta VM

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Running VirtualBox 6.1.12 on MacOS Catalina. Installed Big Sur Public Beta in VM. Guest Addition installer fails to install needed assets in Big Sur. Seems to run then at end get Installation Failed.

I find VBoxGuest.kext in /Library/Extensions.
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Re: Guest Addition won't install on Big Sur Public Beta VM

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I don't know how to fix this, but I do know that the Virtualbox developers develop for final releases, not betas. You can try the test builds.
RandyB
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Re: Guest Addition won't install on Big Sur Public Beta VM

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Thanks for the suggestion. Note the instructions for the test builds indicate turning off SIP in recovery mode to allow system extensions to load since the builds are not signed. However I cannot find anywhere in docs or forum how to boot to Recovery Mode when running in VirtualBox. There doesn't seem to be a way to do the necessary Command-R.
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Re: Guest Addition won't install on Big Sur Public Beta VM

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If Command-R is anything like Windows' F8 for Safe Mode, you'd just hold down Command when the guest starts and keep mashing R. Just a guess, though...
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Re: Guest Addition won't install on Big Sur Public Beta VM

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RandyB wrote:However I cannot find anywhere in docs or forum how to boot to Recovery Mode when running in VirtualBox.
You'll probably have to manually go to the UEFI shell and select the appropriate EFI boot loader.
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