Installation fo Guest Additions 4 VirtualBox

First install Virtualbox and create your VM. See the download link here https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download the Virtual Box Guest Addition, with your current Version. http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/

After the download add the guest addition in the virtualbox environment

addvmgeThen start your VM, and type the following comminds in your console
(you need root permissions so you can use root or another user with sudo, if he is in the sudoers file

Without root, add sudo in front of the commands. A.e. sudo yum update

Yum update

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

yum install kernel-devel

yum install dkms

After that you have to mount the cd rom and install the guest additions

mkdir /media/cdrom/

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/

cd /media/cdrom/

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Congratulation, cheers Christian

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