You can press right Ctrl and F keyboard shortcut to enter full-screen mode. Now the resizeable display should be working and the resolution of Ubuntu will adjust with the size of virtulbox window.
Once it’s done, press Return to close the window. Then enter your password on ubuntu and it will begin building the virtualbox guest additions kernel modules.Īs you can see from the output, it’s also installing window system drivers and graphics libraries and that’s what make 3D acceleration in the guest OS possible. Once the download is complete, click Insert button to insert the CD image into the virtual optical drive.Ī pop-up will appear asking you if you would like to run it. If you host is a Linux distribution, then the guest additions disk image will be downloaded to ~/.config/VirtualBox/ directory. You will be asked to download the guest additions iso image. In the virtual machine window, select Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image. sudo add-apt-repository universeĪfter the above packages are installed, prepare your system to build kernel module. Note: On Ubuntu MATE edition, you need to enable the universe repository, which can be done with the following command, in order to install module-assistant. sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant dkms Install required packages for building kernel modules. sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade & means the shell will only execute the next command after previous command is successfully executed.
Log into Ubuntu (Guest OS), open a terminal and update your software with the below command. Install Virtualbox Guest Additions on Ubuntu The following instructions are tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10. Tip: Virtualbox Guest additions are compiled and installed inside a guest OS. The guest additions will also provide 3D support for Unity desktop thus improving the speed of Ubuntu virtual machine. Guest additions allow your guest OS to be full screen and enable the host and guest to share files and folders with each other. In this tutorial I will show you how to install virtualbox guest additions on Ubuntu virtual machine.
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