Install VirtualBox Guest Additions Command Line

Sat 08 March 2014 in Command Line, Linux

I was digging around searching on how to install the VirtualBox Guest additions without the GUI using the command line. Most of the tutorials out there were of no help. Either with bad or outdated information. I found one article on xmodulo that worked for me.

Here's the steps I followed for my Ubuntu Server VM.

First downloaded the vbox guest addition. Replace X.X.X with your version. You can find that by going to the about within your virtual box install.

wget
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/X.X.X/VBoxGuestAdditions\_X.X.X.iso

Then install the packages that is requires.

sudo apt-get install dkms gcc

Then mount.

sudo mount -o loop VBoxGuestAdditions\_4.2.16.iso /mnt  
cd /mnt

and Install

sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Visit the Source for additional information and how to on other distros.