Guest Additions

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VirtualBox

botond published 2024. 02. 12., h - 04:01 time
Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox) is a free and open source virtualization software developed and maintained by Oracle Corporation. This software is designed to allow one or more operating systems to run within a single physical machine in the form of isolated virtual machines. VirtualBox is a widely used tool among system administrators, developers, and educational institutions because it provides a simple yet powerful solution for testing and running different operating systems simultaneously without changing the underlying physical hardware.

How to install Guest additions on Debian 11 (Bullseye) running in VirtualBox

botond published March 2022, 04, Thu - 21:17 time
If you are running operating systems in VirtualBox, it is a good idea to install Guest Additions on the guest system, which will provide a greater degree of compatibility with the virtual hardware so that the guest system can make better use of the available hardware resources. In this description, we will install the Guest Additions package on a system with a Debian 6.1 (Bullseye) KDE desktop environment running in VirtualBox 11.

Installing VirtualBox 6.0.x on a Debian 10 (Buster) host operating system

botond published Jan. 2019, 10, 30:14 p.m. time
Our favorite virtualization software, VirtualBox, has undergone many developments in recent times. The newer (version 6) was released on December 2018, 18, which included a number of innovations and has been continuously developed ever since. At the time of writing, this is version 6.0.14, which was released on October 2019, 15. In this description, we will install the current version 6.0.14 on a Debian 10 (Buster) host system.