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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
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In order to use VirtualBox guest additions, they have to be build
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first. They may have to be rebuilt each time the time you upgrade to
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a new version of VirtualBox.
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Make sure VM is configured with an Optical Drive.
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Please follow these steps to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions on the
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Build Appliance VM:
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1. Boot VM, select root "Terminal" instead of the default "Terminal <2>"
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2. Insert Guest additions CD into VM optical drive:
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VM menu "Devices"->"Optical Drives"-> Select "VBoxGuestAdditions<version>.iso"
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3. Find your CDROM device. Typically it is /dev/hda for IDE. You can determine
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the actual name <cdromedev> by viewing the cdrom info:
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# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
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Mount the cdrom drive:
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# mount -t iso9660 <cdromdev> /media/cdrom
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i.e.:
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# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /media/cdrom
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4. Build the additions:
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First, we need to build of some prerequisite utilities.
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(This is only needed to be done once)
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# cd /lib/modules/<kernel-version>-yocto-standard/build
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# make scripts
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Now build the guest additions:
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# /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --nox11
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At this point, providing there were no build errors, the guest additions are
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built and installed.
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5. Check if vbox additions running:
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# /etc/init.d/vboxadd status
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If not running, try manually starting:
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# /etc/init.d/vboxadd start
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6. Check if additons actually work, in particular folder sharing.
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Host: Devices->Shared Folders->Shared Folder Settings...
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Add any host folder and name it (i.e. "images")
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Guest VM: create mount point for the shared folder, i.e.:
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# mkdir ~/my-host
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Mount the shared folder: (Watch out for spelling: it's vboxsf NOT vboxfs)
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# mount -t vboxsf images ~/my-host
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Verify mount, should see the contents of the shared folder:
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# ls ~/my-host
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