If everything “OK” – You have Guest Additions properly installed on your Centos (Minimal) machine. Mkdir cdrom & mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Yum install kernel-devel Install VirtualBox Guest Additions OR, I’ll recommend installing the entire “Developer tools” group which will help you to avoid a lot of trouble later: yum groupinstall 'Development tools' In order to compile the guest additions you have to install make, gcc, kernel-devel in order to Install VirtualBox Guest Additions installation script. You will need to be the root user for the following routine or “su -” Prerequisities If everything went well, you can now use the additional functionality provided by the VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Important Before anything!, I’d advice you to update your CentOS & reboot: yum updateĪfter, also try to update your kernel and reboot: yum update kernel Follow the instructions below to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on your desktop or CentOS 8 server. Update and Reboot systemĪfter successful installation of your new and shining CentOS box, Once installed, you can install the add-ons on the guest system.

VirtualBox 4.3.12 or later is required for support in CentOS 7.x, So if you’re using older version of VirtualBox – it’s time for you to upgrade. In the following tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to install Guest Additions on your VirtualBox hosted CentOS 7 Minimal machine.Īlthough this tutorial is intended for CentOS 7 minimal, it’s will probably also work on other CentOS releases. The VirtualBox Guest Additions for all supported guest operating systems are provided as a single CD-ROM image file which is called VBoxGuestAdditions.iso.

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