#install virtualbox

Install Virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux

We will learn in this tutorial “How to Install Virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux”. Mainly used to run the different OS like Windows and Linux. In Virtual box is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization. We can create a imaginary Hardware and run an OS. Virtualbox may be installed on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, and Open Solaris. So we will install Virtualbox on Ubuntu…

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How to install Virtualbox guest additions on Ubuntu

After installing Ubuntu inside virtualbox, you need to install the guest additions to get better hardware functionality inside it. These include full screen resolution, mouse wheel and pointer integration, copy paste from host os (shared clipboard), shared folders etc.

This tutorial shows you how to install VirtualBox guest additions in Ubuntu. The same method works for similar distros like Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu.

1. Install kernel headers and build tools

Virtualbox guest additions are compiled for the target system, so it needs the necessary kernel headers and related programs. Install the following 2 packages.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant

Now run

$ sudo m-a prepare

2. Compile virtualbox guest additions

Now click “Devices > Insert guest additions CD image” in the virtualbox window. This will insert the guest additions cd image into the guest OS. On Xubuntu the cd should get mounted automatically inside the /media directory.

On Ubuntu unity, you should see the cd icon on the left panel towards the lower side. Click it to open the VBox guest additions cd in file manager.

Kubuntu would give you a device notification on bottom right and you can click “open with file manager” which will mount the cd and open it up in dolphin.

Check the path of the cd file system inside the file manager (press Ctrl + L). The location should be something similar to this

/media/<username>/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.10_93012

The shall contain your username on the system.

Mount manually

If it does not mount by itself, then you can manually mount it. Find out the device using blkid and then use the mount command to mount it somewhere in your home directory

# find out the device $ sudo blkid /dev/sr0: LABEL="VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.10_93012" TYPE="iso9660" # Or use the lsblk command $ sudo lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,SIZE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,MODEL NAME TYPE SIZE LABEL MOUNTPOINT MODEL sda disk 8G VBOX HARDDISK ├─sda1 part 6G / ├─sda2 part 1K └─sda5 part 2G [SWAP] sr0 rom 61.7M VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.10_93012 CD-ROM

Note down the device name which is “/dev/sr0″ here. Next we have to mount this device (cdrom) to access the contents.

# create directory to mount $ mkdir cdrom # mount the cd $ sudo mount /dev/sr0 ~/cdrom/ [sudo] password for silver: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only # get inside the mounted directory $ cd cdrom/ ~/cdrom$ ls 32Bit cert VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg 64Bit OS2 VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe AUTORUN.INF runasroot.sh VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe autorun.sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe

Start compiling

Navigate to the directory and run the script named VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

/media/silver/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.10_93012$ ls 32Bit cert VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg 64Bit OS2 VBoxWindowsAdditions-amd64.exe AUTORUN.INF runasroot.sh VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe autorun.sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe /media/silver/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.10_93012$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run [sudo] password for silver: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 4.3.10 Guest Additions for Linux............ VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Copying additional installer modules ... Installing additional modules ... Removing existing VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done. Removing existing VirtualBox non-DKMS kernel modules ...done. Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ...done. Doing non-kernel setup of the Guest Additions ...done. Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions ...done. Installing the Window System drivers Installing X.Org Server 1.15 modules ...done. Setting up the Window System to use the Guest Additions ...done. You may need to restart the hal service and the Window System (or just restart the guest system) to enable the Guest Additions. Installing graphics libraries and desktop services components ...done.

Note the line

Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules ...done.

If it shows done, then virtualbox guest additions are compiled successfully. Now restart the guest OS.

3. Verify that guest additions are working

After rebooting the OS, the screen resolution of the guest OS should adjust with the window size of virtualbox. Other things like mouse scroller, copy paste from guest to host should also work.

You can verify that the [SWAP] are loaded with the following command

# check loaded modules $ lsmod | grep -io vboxguest vboxguest # check module $ modinfo vboxguest filename: /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/updates/dkms/vboxguest.ko version: 4.3.10 license: GPL description: Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux Module author: Oracle Corporation ..... $ lsmod | grep -io vboxguest | xargs modinfo | grep -iw version version: 4.3.10

4. Configure Shared folders

After installing guest additions you can share folders across the guest and host OS, allowing each of them to access each other’s files. The folder exists on the host OS and is shared to the guest OS. The guest may or may not be given the permission to write to the shared folder.

Click Devices > Shared folder settings on the virtualbox window. Click the plus icon on the right side and select the directory from the host OS that you want to share with the guest OS. If you choose "Make permanent" it becomes a Machine folder, else it is a Transient folder. You also have the option to make it read only, so that the guest OS cannot make modifications to the folder.

Once you have specified the shared directory, its time to mount it inside the guest OS. The list of shared folders would show you the name and path of the shared directory. Note down the name, and mount it using the following command

# create a directory in your home directory $ mkdir shared # mount using the mount command. SHARENAME is the name of the shared directory $ sudo mount -t vboxsf SHARENAME ~/shared # or $ sudo mount.vboxsf SHARENAME ~/shared

You might comes across the following error message – “mount: wrong fs type, bad option”. Or “The program ‘mount.vboxsf’ is currently not installed.”

This error is caused by a bug in VirtualBox due to which /sbin/mount.vboxsf points to a wrong path.

To fix this, you have to use the full path to the mount.vboxsf command

$ sudo /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf SHARENAME ~/shared

How To Run Backtrack On Windows Using Virtualbox

Today in this post we are going to tell you how to install Virtual Box on Windows and Mac and use 2 operating systems simultaneously.If you want to use MAC,Backtrack,etc on your Windows operating system you can use many different kinds of softwares. Virtual Box is one of those softwares using which you can use Windows,Backtrack on your Mac operating system without even restarting your system and…