Cannot install Guest-Additions on my UBUNTU (inside VBox) hosted on W10

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Hantevraso
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Cannot install Guest-Additions on my UBUNTU (inside VBox) hosted on W10

Post by Hantevraso »

Good evenings fellas,

I'm currently using Windows 10 hosting VBox for the first time, in which I have a virtual machine with Ubuntu (64b)

Inside Ubuntu I need to share/access to some folders from my Host's HDD, therefore I'm trying to install Guest Additions by this guide step-by-step:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms
(reboot machine)
sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
sudo m-a prepare

From that point on, I've encountered zero issues.
The issue I'm stucked at is, once I've finished these steps, I click on VM's tab named "Devices" > "Insert CD image from 'Guest Additions'..." and once I've clicked here, waiting for the pop-up to show up, nothing happens and it seems this is where I'm stucked at.

Any ideas of how to solve this?, Have I missed something?
Gotta say I'm barely new at VM's.

Thanks in advance,
Regards
scottgus1
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
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Re: Cannot install Guest-Additions on my UBUNTU (inside VBox) hosted on W10

Post by scottgus1 »

Hantevraso wrote:I click on VM's tab named "Devices" > "Insert CD image from 'Guest Additions'..." and once I've clicked here, waiting for the pop-up to show up, nothing happens
This'll probably be because most modern OS's no longer Autorun CD executables. Open the VM OS's CD drive window, then run the Linux installer.

BTW big kudos for running the install prerequisites for Linux!
Hantevraso
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Re: Cannot install Guest-Additions on my UBUNTU (inside VBox) hosted on W10

Post by Hantevraso »

Hello Scott, thanks for the fast reply.
Thing is, there is no CD Drive window on my installed Ubuntu... I mean, if i try to run it manually I can't propperly see the CD drive in which i can click... Is it something previous that I'm missing?
Thanks SO much in advance.

Btw, what about the prerequisites?
scottgus1
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Re: Cannot install Guest-Additions on my UBUNTU (inside VBox) hosted on W10

Post by scottgus1 »

Check the VM's settings that there is an optical drive attached to the VM's storage controller (Virtualbox puts one in by default), and with Ubuntu's help channels to see how to mount a CD drive in the Ubuntu OS.

The prerequisites are some of those apt-get instructions, especially the headers. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq
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