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VirtualBox guest additions in CentOS VM (shared folders and clipboard)

In the previous video we went through the installation of a CentOS virtual machine inside VirtualBox. Today we’ll quickly go through how to set up Guest Additions in a CentOS virtual machine in VirtualBox and then enable clipboard and shared folders.
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Previous video about installing CentOS VM: https://youtu.be/iw5QFqSw0DU

Commands to install packages:
sudo dnf install epel-release
sudo dnf install gcc make perl kernel-devel kernel-headers bzip2 dkms

Command to add user to vboxsf group:
sudo usermod –append –groups vboxsf $USER

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15 thoughts on “VirtualBox guest additions in CentOS VM (shared folders and clipboard)

  • Really great video, I'm confused about the error:

    "Could not insert the C:Program FilesOracleVirtualBox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso disk image file into the virtual machine local_users_default, as the machine has no optical drives. Please add a drive using the storage page of the virtual machine settings window."

    There is a weird forward slash that seems to be out of place, but also, there is definitely a disk image, otherwise how would the VM have been created in the first place? I usually sign in using vagrant and have saved a lot of stuff to the virtual disk. Confused where to start with this error.

    Any tips? Thanks again 🙂

  • This tutorial solved not just but two of my issue,, shared folders and also enable seamless and fullscreen mode. Live long and prosper!!!

  • Many Many thanks 👍. Its working perfectly. Clipboard and shared folders are working bidirectional Thanks to you.

  • Your speed is like F-16 i rewind So many time than set speed at .75 for some important point even reduce more. 😂

  • the shared folders does not work. I see the folders being created in /media/ and when I try to access them theyre empty.

  • can I use root user itself to install and use above command (except sudo)

  • Loved it. Was searching around for this video all day to be able to use shared folders!

  • Very Useful, everything worked on the first attempt after following this
    Thanks!

  • finally got it working 😀 thanks man! I wonder where you got this info 🤔

  • Thank u alot for such well explained and showed brief tutorial!

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