VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora 21/20, CentOS

This is guide, howto install Oracle VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). This guide should work with Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16/15/14/13/12, CentOS 7/6.6/5.11, Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.6/5.11.

VirtualBox Guest Additions is special software that can be installed inside Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these VirtualBox Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL)

1. Change root user

Shell

su - ## OR ## sudo -i

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su - ## OR ## sudo -i

2. Mount VirtualBox Guest Additions

Click Devices > Install Guest Additions… on VirtualBox

Mount VirtualBox Guest Additions device

Shell

mkdir /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions

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mkdir /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions

3. Make sure that you are running latest kernel

Update virtual machine kernel and reboot

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yum update kernel* reboot

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yum update kernel* reboot

4. Install following packages

On CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6/5, EPEL repo is needed

Shell

## CentOS 7 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm ## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm ## CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

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## CentOS 7 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm   ## CentOS 6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm ## CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ## rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Install following packages

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yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzip2 perl

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yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzip2 perl

5. Add KERN_DIR environment variable

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## Current running kernel on Fedora, CentOS 7/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6 ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r` ## Current running kernel on CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m` ## Fedora example ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686 ## CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) example ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64 ## Export KERN_DIR ## export KERN_DIR

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## Current running kernel on Fedora, CentOS 7/6 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6 ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`   ## Current running kernel on CentOS 5 and Red Hat (RHEL) 5 ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m`   ## Fedora example ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686   ## CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL) example ## KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.11.1.el5-x86_64   ## Export KERN_DIR ## export KERN_DIR

6. Install Guest Additions

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cd /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions # 32-bit and 64-bit systems run following ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

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cd /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions   # 32-bit and 64-bit systems run following ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Output looks like following:

[root@fedora VBoxGuestAdditions]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.6 Guest Additions for Linux......... VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 4.1.6 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ] Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ] Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ] Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ] Building the OpenGL support module                         [  OK  ] Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ] You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used Installing the Window System drivers Installing X.Org Server 1.11 modules                       [  OK  ] Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ] You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions. Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]

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[root@fedora VBoxGuestAdditions]# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.1.6 Guest Additions for Linux......... VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version 4.1.6 of VirtualBox Guest Additions... Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules           [  OK  ] Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules       [  OK  ] Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules Building the main Guest Additions module                   [  OK  ] Building the shared folder support module                  [  OK  ] Building the OpenGL support module                         [  OK  ] Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions              [  OK  ] You should restart your guest to make sure the new modules are actually used   Installing the Window System drivers Installing X.Org Server 1.11 modules                       [  OK  ] Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions    [  OK  ] You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions.   Installing graphics libraries and desktop services componen[  OK  ]

7. Reboot guest system

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reboot

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reboot

Then VirtualBox Guest Additions install is ready.

Check also:

Install VirtualBox (with yum) on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)