Installing Guest Additions on Debian VM

1. Open the VirtualBox GUI Manager.
2. Start the Debian guest virtual machine.
3. From the virtual machine menu, click Devices -> “Insert Guest Additions CD Image” as shown on the image below:

1. Open the Debian guest terminal, create a new directory , and mount the ISO file:

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

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1. Navigate to the directory and execute the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run script to install the Guest Additions:

cd /mnt/cdrom

sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run –nox11

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The –nox11 option tells the installer not to spawn an xterm window.

The output will look like below:

Verifying archive integrity… All good.

Uncompressing VirtualBox 6.0.16 Guest Additions for Linux……..

…

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VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.Copy

1. Reboot the Debian guest for changes to take effect:

sudo shutdown -r now

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