From the course: Learning VirtualBox (2020)

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Guest Additions for Linux

Guest Additions for Linux - VirtualBox Tutorial

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Guest Additions for Linux

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- [Instructor] Even though we have Linux installed, and it works, there are still some improvements we can make. Depending on the distro, you may have a little bit of a video size issue going on. Some distros need a little bit of help in the graphics driver department, to be a little bit more usable. And we can give them that help, with the Guest Additions, the software that VirtualBox provides in order to make the system a little easier to use. From the top bar of the virtual machine window, I'll choose devices, and then choose insert Guest Additions CD image. This will plug a disk image into the virtual machine with the installer. With this GUI, I see a pop up asking to run the software. If I were using an installation without a desktop, I could still install through the command line. But for now, I'll click run. I'll try to install the software, and it looks like there's an error. That's not uncommon when we install…

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