Tag Archives: virtualbox

How to Install Virtualbox Guest Additions on Fedora 20

By | September 3, 2020

Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) is currently the latest release and if you want to try it on VirtualBox then install the guest additions for full functionality. Installation is simple and takes a few steps, but involves download and updates which would require some bandwidth. The Guest Additions are compiled from source and loaded as a module…. Read More »

Install virtualbox guest additions on Debian 7 wheezy

By | August 3, 2013

Virtualbox guest additions in Debian Debian 7 wheezy has virtualbox guest additions inbuilt. So after installing debian on virtualbox the guest addition features are immediately available. However the guest additions bundled with debian is general of older version compared to the latest virtualbox version. So its a good idea to install the latest virtualbox guest… Read More »

Take screenshot of virtualbox guest os

By | June 21, 2013

Virtualbox If you are a blogger, doing experiments with various oses on virtualbox and writing tutorials and posts, then you will need to take screenshots of the guest os things inside virtualbox. For normal screenshot tasks a tool like shutter works very well. But with virtualbox you get the screenshot of the entire virtualbox window… Read More »

Install Backtrack 5 rc3 on virtualbox

By | February 25, 2013

Backtrack 5 rc3 is at the present the latest release of backtrack linux and is based on ubuntu. Virtualbox supports such oses very well and installation of guest additions is also very swift and smooth. So now we are going to install the backtrack distro inside Virtualbox. Get the latest virtualbox for your system (windows,… Read More »

How to Check if Virtualbox Guest Additions are Installed in a Linux Guest OS

By | September 2, 2020

Virtualbox guest additions allow better integration between the host and guest operating systems like seamless copy/paste, flexible screen resolution of the guest os etc. After installing an OS inside VirtualBox you should install the Guest Additions right away to get the best features and functionality out of it. It installs driver programs that enables native… Read More »