Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions ===================================== In order to use VirtualBox guest additions, they have to be build first. They may have to be rebuilt each time the time you upgrade to a new version of VirtualBox. Make sure VM is configured with an Optical Drive. Please follow these steps to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions on the Build Appliance VM: 1. Boot VM, select root "Terminal" instead of the default "Terminal <2>" 2. Insert Guest additions CD into VM optical drive: VM menu "Devices"->"Optical Drives"-> Select "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso" 3. Find your CDROM device. Typically it is /dev/hda for IDE. You can determine the actual name by viewing the cdrom info: # cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info Mount the cdrom drive: # mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom i.e.: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /media/cdrom 4. Build the additions: First, we need to build of some prerequisite utilities. (This is only needed to be done once) # cd /lib/modules/-yocto-standard/build # make scripts Now build the guest additions: # /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run --nox11 At this point, providing there were no build errors, the guest additions are built and installed. 5. Check if vbox additions running: # /etc/init.d/vboxadd status If not running, try manually starting: # /etc/init.d/vboxadd start 6. Check if additons actually work, in particular folder sharing. Host: Devices->Shared Folders->Shared Folder Settings... Add any host folder and name it (i.e. "images") Guest VM: create mount point for the shared folder, i.e.: # mkdir ~/my-host Mount the shared folder: (Watch out for spelling: it's vboxsf NOT vboxfs) # mount -t vboxsf images ~/my-host Verify mount, should see the contents of the shared folder: # ls ~/my-host