In the Devices menu in the virtual machine's menu bar, Oracle VM VirtualBox has a menu item Insert Guest Additions CD Image, which mounts the Guest Additions ISO file inside your virtual machine.A Windows guest should then automatically start the Guest Additions installer, which installs the Guest Additions on your Windows guest.
- On Oracle Solaris hosts, this file is in the additions folder where you installed Oracle VM VirtualBox, usually /opt/VirtualBox. In the Virtual Media Manager, select the ISO file and click the Add button. This mounts the ISO file and presents it to your Windows guest as a CD-ROM.
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- Download VirtualBox Guest Additions for Windows OSE - A lightweight and streamlined installer for VirtualBox Windows Guest Additions, designed for the Open Source Edition of Oracle's product.
Could not mount the media/drive '/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed}
Callee: IMachine {5047460a-265d-4538-b23e-ddba5fb84976}
This is the error I keep getting and going back in the instructions given to me, I didn't miss a thing. Could it be my computer?
I have a late 2009 model MacBook Air with Hi-Sierra
Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit
5 gb of RAM
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Any and all help will be much appreciated. Please keep instructions simple, too. Again I'm very new and rusty when it comes to Computers. Also! I'm trying to run CentOS 7 as a Virtual Machine, if that helps at all.
-Thank you!
[Commands used were against VirtualBox version 4…]
Sometimes you don’t want to use a lot of disk space on your VirtualBox for install software or any ‘temporary’ need of space.
Adding shared folders from your host to your VirtualBox guest is a good option to use. If you have a Windows guest and a GUI based Host, it it’s very easy; click, click, done.
But if you are using a command line based guest and/or host, it a bit more complex. Use this post as a guideline, Linux knowledge is assumed…
Manually installing VBoxGuestAdditions [windows guest]
To easy… from the host command line, the guest additions are installed automagically on the Windows host machine.
Manually installing VBoxGuestAdditions [linux guest]
Steps
0. Guest: Common Errors
1. Host: ‘Putting the Additions in the DVD drive’
2. Guest: Mount the DVD
3. Guest: Install Additions (in case of errors, see 0.)
4. Guest: Unmount the DVD
0. Common Errors: Make sure GCC, MAKE and KERNEL-DEVEL (headers) are installed…
If not installed, you might run into next trouble:
To see what went wrong run ‘/etc/init.d/vboxadd setup’:
Correct what went wrong and run ‘/etc/init.d/vboxadd setup’ again:
1a. Find the IDE Controller device numbers
1b.Get the port and device numbers
1c. If not found, add it
1d. Attach the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso as dvddrive
Port and device numbers needed here!
2. Mount the DVD drive on Guest OS
3. Install VBoxLinuxAdditions
If you encounter errors here, see: ‘0. Common Errors‘.
4. Done? Unmount and remove
Uninstall VBoxGuestAdditions
Adding/removing shared folders to VirtualBox
Adding shared folders without a VirtualBox GUI is done like this, “vbox_name” is the name of your virtual machine, “–name install” is the name of the vboxsf name in the guest, “–hostpath /install” is the folder on your host system.
On the guest it’s automounted to ‘/media/sf_install’, otherwise mount (again) with:
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VirtualBox downloads
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Done… Happy sharing!