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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Revisiting installing guest additions on Virtual box for CentOS 7

Toying with docker, I found myself with an upgraded version of Virtual Box, and a new virtual machine brought me to the old issue of the pre-configuration needed for installing guest additions on CentOS 7. Things have become simpler: 

1) The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository is now better embedded, and therefore the following suffices to define it:
     yum install epel-release 
2) Having the new repositry, we can easily install dkms: 
    yum install dkms 

And surprisingly, this solves all dependencies required for the guest additions... (at least it solved it for me, in a base+X installation). 

so afterwards, we can run the guest additions installer, and see it complete. 

Screen shot of the Installation of Virtual Box Guest Additions for Linux

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