This installs the ISO that you can then mount with: Sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso In Ubuntu 14.04, I ended up having to install the additions from the Ubuntu servers with apt-get: So this requires you to do the installation manually. It seems that the menu option assumes that you are running X11 when I generally don't want to install the whole X11 for a tiny super simple server. Installing the additional features has not been working right with the menu. If you hit it again, it again allows you to scale your window. If you changed that key, make sure to use the key you changed it to. The default Host commands are triggered by Right Ctrl.

The missing menu is because the window is scaled. It is possible that the top bar does not include any menu in your VirtualBox guest window. Pkgadd /media/VBOXADDITIONS-/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg Just try to run the autorun.sh by hand or whatever installation command with whatever package there is on the CD. In that case use df to find your CD path and look into it. Might have to reboot to remove the existing CD and get the additions CD inserted with that menu option.Īlso, the autorun.sh script may fail. For example, if you already have a CDROM in your virtual machine, it won't be able to load another CD in there. iso and autoexec's whatever needs to be done. To install those, it should be as easy as using the Install Guest Additions.

Install the Virtual Box Tools (called Guest Additions) on your guest these tools allow your guest to communicate with the host to allow files to be written in a directory on the host. This is mainly a matter if setting up an SSH server and allowing connections for a given user. Here, I have an example of GParted where I could not install the VirtualBox tools as mentioned below. The fact is that it is all explained right here: I use VirtualBox and had a problem with copying files between my host (main computer on which you boot your computer) and the guests (virtual computer that you run on your host).

Transfer file from host to virtualbox