Download Guest Additions???

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slowfrog
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Download Guest Additions???

Post by slowfrog »

Where? The Fedora rpm does not include the .iso. From a VM I downloaded (or supposedly downloaded) the guest additions. Settings shows them inserted into the VM CD-drive but the from the VM, VB insists that the iso should be at the host ~/.config/VirtualBox. Not there.

I have a production server running Centos7 that I want to convert to Oracle but I need to test the script first on a virtual machine.
scottgus1
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Re: Download Guest Additions???

Post by scottgus1 »

slowfrog wrote:The Fedora rpm does not include the .iso.
That's correct, because the Fedora rpm is a fork provided by Fedora and not by Virtualbox.org. Maybe Fedora can help find them in their repo.

But we do have a site for downloading Virtualbox files. see https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

Also, if you want to get Virtualbox support from this forum, you may have to use official Virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads instead of the fork, which is not supported here. Official Virtualbox comes with the Guest Additions ISO bundled in the correct location. Note that official Virtualbox has prerequisites: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq
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