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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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