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Guest Additions provide additional capability to a guest virtual machine, including file sharing. Guest Additions means:

• Virtualbox Guest Additions Os X
• Vbox Guest Additions Macos Catalina

Fix Unable to Install Guest Additions CD Image on VirtualBox 2019VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. Mac OS X: Description I am using a macOS 10.14 guest, with the latest development builds of VirtualBox Version 6.1.0BETA1 r134041 (Qt5.6.3), GuestEditions, and VB Extensions matching that version. This also occurs with the latest stable builds of all three installs Version 6.0.14 r133895 (Qt5.6.3) (different machine, also running macOS 10.14. Title and Copyright Information; Preface; 1 First Steps. 1.1 Why is Virtualization Useful? 1.2 Some Terminology; 1.3 Features Overview; 1.4 Supported Host Operating. Boot & login into your guest macOS. In VirtualBox UI, use menu Devices Insert Guest Additions CD image. CD will appear on your macOS desktop, open it. Run VBoxDarwinAdditions.pkg. Go through installer, it's mostly about clicking Next. At some step, macOS.

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• software installed on a guest virtual machine
• software from a third party (Oracle), not open source and not installed in the usual fashion for the guest OS

Guest Additions are distributed on their own CD image (.iso file) named VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. How you get that file to the guest can depend on the OS of the guest - see below.

After installing Guest Additions, on some, older guests you might need to restart the guest.

For recent guest OSs

In the guest virtual machine, choose Devices -> Install Guest Additions from the menubar of VirtualBox.

VirtualBox will look for the needed file. Failing to find it, it may give you an opportunity to download the file from the internet.

If all that fails, follow one of the steps below.

Ubuntu or similar

Getting VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

You have several choices. On the host (not the guest):

• Download a VirtualBox package from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (you might have installed this package when you installed VirtualBox). The package should include the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file.

• Open http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ and enter the subdirectory for the latest version of VirtualBox. It should contain the corresponding VBoxGuestAdditions_X.Y.Z.iso file.

• Install a package through the usual channels for your distribution. For example, you might use:

Some, recent versions of VirtualBox will now be able to find the file on the host when you choose Device -> Install Guest Additions on the VirtualBox running a guest. Continue with instructions for setting up file sharing.

For other, older versions of guest OS's and VirtualBox, the .iso file is on the host, but the guest needs to see it (and file sharing is not yet enabled.) Follow the next two steps for mounting the .iso file and executing the scripts in the .iso file.

Making VBoxGuestAdditions.iso visible to the guest

Just as you mounted a .iso CD image for your guest OS when installing it on the guest, now mount VBoxGuestAdditions.iso as a CD on the guest. For example, in the VirtualBox window, choose the Storage section under Details, and so forth.

Note that recent versions of VirtualBox have changed the method of mounting .iso files.

Now start the guest.

Executing install script for Guest Additions on older Linux guests

Make sure you have the image, for example VBoxGuestAdditions.iso or VBOXADDITIONS, mounted as CDROM.

If you are running a Linux guest, open a terminal and type:

in for instance Ubuntu Lucid, the CD image should mount at /media/<cd name> so that would be

then run:

Alternatively simply run

If you would like to uninstall the Guest Additions, run:

References

• VirtualBox Manual. Guest Additions

Reported by:	Owned by:
Component:	guest additions	Version:	VirtualBox 6.0.14
Keywords:	Cc:
Guest type:	OSX Server	Host type:	Mac OS X

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Changed 18 months ago by Kalak

• attachmentcatalina-guest-install.log added

Changed 18 months ago by Kalak

• attachmentmacOS10.15-2019-10-07-17-24-21.log added

comment:3 Changed 14 months ago by aeichner

• Status changed from new to closed
• Resolution set to fixed

comment:6follow-ups:↓ 7↓ 12 Changed 11 months ago by AKuehnel

comment:7 in reply to: ↑ 6 Changed 11 months ago by GammaG

comment:8 Changed 10 months ago by paulson

• Status changed from closed to reopened
• Resolutionfixed deleted

comment:9 Changed 10 months ago by paulson

• Summary changed from Guest Additions not installing on macOS 10.15 Catalia guests to Guest Additions not installing on macOS 10.15 Catalina guests

comment:12 in reply to: ↑ 6 Changed 4 months ago by atoolz

Virtualbox Guest Additions Os X

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