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Go to your Download folder in the Windows 10 VM and double click on the VBoxGuestAdditions ISO file.Дouble click on the VBoxWindowsAdditions installer.Дuring the installation process the remote console window on your virtual machine will turn black. Save VBoxGuestAdditions ISO file locally on your virtual machine. 5.0.24/VBoxGuestAdditions_ 5.0.24.iso or go to and click through links navigating to the correct VBoxGuestAdditions version.Дownload the appropriate ISO file that matches your Installed VirtualBox version. Go to and complete the URL using your version number to locate the correct ISO file, e.g. Return to your running Windows 10 Learning Environment virtual machine. Locate the version information on the VirtualBox about screen. Open the VirtualBox Application on your Mac.Д¬lick on VirtualBox in the Finder and select About VirtualBox. Note: The version of VirtualBox Guest Additions must match the version of VirtualBox being used on the host. If you face any problems during installation, use the feedback form below to ask any questions.Guest additions adds important features such as: better mouse integration, automatic drive mapping of shares to Mac OS, Cut/Paste and Drag/Drop between host and guest operating systems, and better video scaling ThatвЂ™s it! VirtualBox Guest Additions make your life simple while using guest operating systems by enabling seamless integration between the host and guest systems.

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Read Also: How to Enable USB in VirtualBox Once you are done, click on OK to save the settings and boot your guest OS and confirm that the changes you have just made are working as expected. Enable Shared Clipboard in CentOS Virtualbox From the CentOS, RHEL and Fedora guest machine settings, go to General => Advanced and enable these two options from there, click on the drop down options to select an option. Now you need to enable the shared clipboard and dragвЂ™nвЂ™drop functionality for your guest operating system.

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Note: If you donвЂ™t have a desktop environment installed, you can install Gnome 3 desktop or skip the next section. Once the installation is complete, power off your guest system to perform certain settings as explained below. Login into terminal and run the following commands to mount the Guest Additions ISO file, move into the directory where the guest additions ISO has been mounted, inside there you will find VirtualBosx guest addition installers for various platform, run the one for Linux, as follows. Install Guest Additions in CentOS Installing Guest Additions on CentOS Install Guest Additions via a Terminal This will in turn open a terminal which shows the installation details (follow the on-screen instructions). Mount Guest Additions ISO on CentOSДЄ dialog window will open up, asking you to Run the installer, click on the Run to execute it.

If you have a desktop environment installed, use this option, from the Virtual machine menu bar, go to Devices => click on Insert Guest Additions CD image to mount the Guest Additions ISO file in your guest OS. Now, you can mount the Guest Additions ISO and run the installer in two ways: Install Guest Additions via a GUI # export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)ДҐ. Next, set the KERN_DIR environment variable to kernel source code directory ( /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)) and export it at the same time as shown. # dnf install make gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel perl dkms bzip2Д¤. # yum install make gcc kernel-headers kernel-devel perl dkms bzip2

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Once update process completes, install all kernel headers, developer tools and other related packages that are required for installing the guest additions from source as shown.

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Once the upgrade process is done, reboot your system to complete the upgrade process and start using the new kernel. Next, update each package on your guest system including the kernel to the latest version that is both available and resolvable, as shown. First start by enabling the EPEL repository on your CentOS/RHEL guest operating system to install some required packages needed for the installation process as shown.