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Questions tagged [virtualbox-guest-additions]

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Vagrant up causes guest additions to reinstall each time, why?

Ive had to move onto a new laptop running windows 10, so I have installed the latest Virtual box (6) and vagrant (2.2.6). I pulled down my project and ran a vagrant up to build the box and deploy all my work, but there was an issue with guest…
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Why virtualbox fails to install on Ubuntu20.04

I am trying to install virtualbox. I had it installed previously and it worked. Today I tried to add another virtual machine and it started complaining about problems with dkms so I tried to purge and install everything with the following failure. $…
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How to get full screen when running Ubuntu 20.04 on Virtualbox

I know this is a fairly commonly asked question, but I've followed the other solutions and none of them seem to solve my problem. I'm running an Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine on Virtualbox. I've set up the virtual machine all fine, but would like to…
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Virtualbox not allowing 64-bit guests on mac os

I recently got a new computer - macbook, 2020, m1 chip, running Big Sur, and I wanted to install a windows 10 64-bit guest on virtualbox on it. However, no 64 bit options of any kind appear in the menu when I try to create a new machine. On my old…
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Resize Error with Virtual Box and Vagrant

I'm using vagrant to create a Debian/contrib-stretch64. My main problem is that when i try to resize this VM, i got this error: Vboxclient: Failed to get display change request, rc=VERR_IO_BAD_LENGTH I tried many things, i switch VBOXVGA to VMSVGA…
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VirtualBox window doesn’t scale up to full-screen

Sometimes my VirtualBox doesn’t scale up to full-screen and bloats to a very unpleasant stretched mode when I try to maximize the window it. How do I fix it?
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Getting [Errno 39] Directory not empty issue while installing python modules inside shared folder of vagrant using virtual environment

I am trying to build debian package of my module inside shared folder of VM (Vagrant + VirtualBox) using virtual environment and I am gettting following error [Errno 39] Directory not empty:…
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How to restart VM and wait till it fully starts up again using VirtualBox CLI?

I'm automating VM creation using VBoxManage unattended install and want to run script after installing which led me to --post-install-command option. The problem here is: the next steps in my script require Guest Additions, so I used…
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Linux Vagrant Box compatible with VirtualBox version 6

I have been trying to install various Vagrant Boxes from Hashicorp's Vagrant Box Catalog but none seem to be compatible with: Vagrant version: 2.2.9 VirtualBox versions: 6.0.x or 6.1.x Host: Mac Catalina I have tried multiple workarounds shared…
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FreeBSD mount failed with error: operation not supported by device

I'm using freeBSD on VirtualBox on Windows10. I want to mount on Windows. (HOST:Windows GUEST:freeBSD) I run mount command but got an error below. mount -t vboxvfs -w mp /mnt/vbox mount: mp: Operation not supported by device How can I solve this…
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How do I resize the screen of Parrot Sec in VirtualBox?

I have searched and found the VirtualBox Guest Addons fix, but that isn't working for me. Every time I resize the window in the VirtualBox settings and/or the Display Settings in Parrot Security, it initially resizes to what I want but reverts back…
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How do I create a shared folder between my host (Mac OS) and guest (Fedora Server) in VirtualBox?

Specifics Host OS: macOS Catalina v10.15.2 (19C57) Guest OS: Fedora 31 (Server Edition) Virtualization Product: VirtualBox v6.1.0 r135406 (Qt5.6.3)
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Can't install VBox Guest Additions on Debian Buster

I have a problem with installing VBox Guest Additions on Debian Buster. My log: /var/log/VBoxLinuxAddtions.log Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vboxadd.service → /lib/systemd/system/vboxadd.service. vboxadd.sh: failed:…
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Vagrant CentOS8 using NFS fails to mount: mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported

I am trying to do vagrant up for a CentOS 8 machine I have built using Jeff Geerling's packer-boxes repo. My Vagrantfile looks like this. # -*- mode: ruby -*- # vi: set ft=ruby : Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.ssh.insert_key = false …
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vboxmanage guestcontrol change password

I have a script that inside a virtual machine I'm able to trigger. However, I'd like to pass the argument to the script. I'd normally run the script as ">>test.bat user1" The arguement is "user1". Can someone help modify the below command to pass…
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