- Install Guest Additions Virtualbox Mac
- Virtualbox Guest Additions For Mac Os X Guest 8
- Virtualbox Guest Additions For Mac Os X Guest Account
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If you’re a Mac user like me, who uses VirtualBox to run guest / virtual Operating Systems within OS X, you will most likely encounter errors with VirtualBox under Mavericks, specifically if you upgrade to OS 10.9 from a pre-existing OS X install where VirtualBox was already installed.
These issues will include anything relating to “Kernel Extension” errors when launching the VirtualBox application or “Kernel Driver Not Installed” errors when launching a Virtual Machine.
If this happens:
Just like VMware Tools on VMware, it is a pack of useful tools and utilities which enhance all aspects of a virtual machine. As a result, it will improve the performance of running a virtual machine on VirtualBox that will cover all the operations and tasks. I am running Debian 6.0.3 Guest on Mac OsX Snow Leopard Host in VirtualBox 4.1.8. From VirtualBox 'Devices / Install Guest Additions ' menu I have managed to mount Guest Additions iso in Debian guest. Yet, it did not autorun, and even on root account I could not start any shell script from this volume.
1. (Re)Download and (re)install the latest version of VirtualBox for OS X.
2. (Re)Download (re)install the respective Extension Pack.
Install Guest Additions Virtualbox Mac
3. In a shell (Terminal),
cd /Library/Extensions
and sudo rm -rf VBox*.kext
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Mac Os X Guest 8
4. Reboot
This should solve all of your issues. Step 3 above is important because it appears that those Kernel Extension files are for older versions of VirtualBox (pre-4.3) that are not cleaned up by a re-install of VirtualBox, and will cause issues with 4.3 (which is the latest version of VirtualBox at the time of this writing).
Virtualbox Guest Additions For Mac Os X Guest Account
While you’re at it, you may as well reinstall the Guest Additions in your respective VMs after you fix your VirtualBox install.