Go to the Virtualbox menu > Device and then select the “Install Guest Additions CD Image…” option. Step 4: Insert Install Guest Additions CD Image The first thing we need to do is install a few prerequisite packages. Thus, it is better to run the Kernel update command before restarting the system sudo dnf update kernel-* The following steps will work for installing VirtualBox Guest Additions.

Give your permission to install by typing Y and hit the Enter Key.Īlthough, the system will perform the update of the kernel automatically to make the changes, however, sometimes it may not. sudo dnf install gcc make perl kernel-devel kernel-headers bzip2 dkms The next thing is with the help of the EPEL repository we will install several tools kernel and DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) to build and install the Kernel module required to install the Guest Addition feature VirtualBox on AlmaLinux 8 distro. Open Command terminal and first-run system update command that is: sudo dnf updateĪfter that add the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, in short, known as EPEL using a simple command: sudo dnf install epel-release Well, set up Guest Additions on the Rocky Linux we need EPEL repo & DNF manager, purely command line. Step 7: Confirm Guest Additions VirtualBox Guest Additions installation on Rocky Linux 8

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