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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

- [Instructor] Now that all the requirements have been added, we can install the VirtualBox Guest Additions. This will share the folder that we set up earlier between the guest and the host. In Linux, the path to this folder will be /media/sf_sandbox. The sf is for shared folder, underscore, then the name of the share name. The Guest Additions are installed from VirtualBox itself. To do this, we'll need to use a couple new commands. The first is the man Command, which shows the manual for commands. It's always good to read the friendly manual. When reading a manual, there are some navigation keys. The up and down keys will scroll up and down, and space skips pages. If you'd like to see more help from man, press h to see additional commands. When you're done, press q to quit. The next command is mount, which attaches a device's file system to the file tree. Practically speaking, this gives access to the contents of a device, like any other directory in the computer. For example, mount…

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