Insert Guest additions Image by installing it If no dialog is launch upon Guest addition image insertion, simply double click the image icon the desktop to mount it. You can click run or simply cancel and do the installation of VirtualBox guest additions on Kali Linux 2020.3 from the command line Once you insert the image, a dialog box which prompts you to run or cancel the Guest Additions installer is launched. Install the missing packages cat > /etc/apt/sources.list Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image.Įnsure that you have unallocated (empty) controller IDE from virtual machine storage settings to insert the image. The ii means that the package is installed. To verify if these build requirements have already been installed, run the command below sudo dpkg -l | grep -E 'dkms|linux-headers-$(uname -r)|build-essential' ii build-essential 12.8 amd64 Informational list of build-essential packagesĪs you can see, we only have the build-essential tools installed. Before the image can be inserted into the vm, you need to install required build tools, the Linux kernel headers and the support modules, if not already installed. Guest additions image can be manually inserted into a vm via the VM virtualbox menu. Guest additions image can be inserted into a VirtualBox virtual machine manually via the VM menu or by installing the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package. Insert the Guest Additions Image into the Kali Linux 2020.3 virtual machine If you want to take this long route, then you first need to insert the guest additions iso/image file into your Kali Linux 2020.3 virtual machine. Install VirtualBox Guest Additions via Guest Additions Image cat > /etc/apt/sources.list Auto-resize Guest display. If the command output is empty, run the command below to install Kali Linux rolling release repositories. To install this package, you need to have the Kali Linux repositories installed.Ĭheck if you Kali Linux repos installed grep -v '#' /etc/apt/sources.list | sort -u deb kali-rolling main non-free contribĭeb-src kali-rolling main non-free contrib X11 Guest Utilities package for VirtualBox are provided by the virtualbox-guest-x11 package. Via VirtualBox Guest Additions Image Install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Kali Linux 2020.3 via x11 Guest Utilities package.Via X11 guest utilities for package for VirtualBox.

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