VirtualBox 5.1 additions

[mike271]

I unistalled an old version of VBox (4.36) and installed 5.1 following this tutorial tecadmin*net|install-oracle-virtualbox-on-ubuntu on my Debian 7 machine.
After installing I wanted to add Guest Additions using

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apt-get install virtualbox-5.1-guest-utils

, but no such package exists, so I used

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apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils

. The problem is that

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dpkg --list | grep virtualbox

now gives the following

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ii  virtualbox-5.1                           5.1.4-110228~Debian~wheezy         amd64        Oracle VM VirtualBox
ii  virtualbox-guest-dkms                    4.1.42-dfsg-1+deb7u1               all          x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii  virtualbox-guest-utils                   4.1.42-dfsg-1+deb7u1               amd64        x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii  virtualbox-guest-x11                     4.1.42-dfsg-1+deb7u1               amd64        x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities

VBox seemed working well before the additions installation and now it's working as well, however I don't feel good about having old additions. What should I do about it? Use

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apt-get remove --purge ...

to get rid of them?
Is it possible to get new version of them?

[JSA]

Yes of course its possible to get upgrades. Your howt Disto should supply them (package named something like The official VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO image). Or you can install direct from virtualbox.org.

Download the package for guest extentions, (its just a iso file that you do not use on the host), then in the VM (via the gui), tell it to mount the Guest Extensions disk and install them in the VM.

[mike271]

Thanks a lot, I downloaded the deb package, ran

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dpkg -i virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Debian~wheezy_amd64.deb

and then mounted the iso to each virtual machine