

Control over clipboard access is controlled via the VirtualBox preferences settings, details of which can be found in the Configuring the VirtualBox Environment chapter.

Host/Guest Time Synchronization - Ensures that the system times of the guest and host are synchronized at regular intervals thereby preventing the virtualization time drift often encountered with guest operating systems running in virtual machines.When installed on a guest operating system, VirtualBox Guest Additions provide the following enhancements: 9 Updating the Linux VirtualBox Guest Additions.8 Recompiling the Linux Guest Addition Kernel Modules.7 Selected Installation of Linux Guest Additions.6 Installing VirtualBox Guest Addition on Linux.5 Manually Extracting the VirtualBox Windows Drivers.4 Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Windows.3 The VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO File.Sometimes, Ubuntu doesn’t automatically start the install process after after Guest Additions have been added. When Install Guest Additions… Doesn’t Autorun The next time the virtual machine starts, the guest additions will be installed and integrated. is a spurious warning – I have had no problem with compilation.Ħ) Go to the System Tools icon in the top right corner and select Shut Down:ħ) Choose to either Shut Down or Restart the system (it doesn’t matter which):

If the following module compilation fails then this could be the reason. The warning The headers for the current running kernel were not found.
