To verify if the Image is mounted successfully, click on Machine from the top menu and from the drop down click on Settings. Insert Guest Additions CD Image to the VM

In the drop down menu click on Insert Guest Additions CD Image.

Just power on your VM and on the console look out for Devices from the top menu. The good thing is that you don't have to download any additional software to setup VBoxGuestAddition. This is a mandatory pre-requisite if you wish to configure a shared folder with VirtualBox. I will use RHEL/CentOS 8 as my Linux OS to access the shared folder as normal and root user. It is possible the steps may vary in future with a different version of VirtualBox. I am using Oracle VirtualBox 6.1 which is installed on Windows 10 host. Removing the package (before reinstalling the 4.4.x version) doesn't seem an option neither, because of its dependancies:Īt the end, I didn't succeed in mouting shared folders into my HDP 2.6.4.ALSO READ: Create systemd service in Linux Trying to update the kernel-devel/kernel-headers to match the 4.4.x version, I ended up with a conflict and I was unable to update the kernel-headers with the 4.4.x version. So we have a pre-requisite of our pre-requisite, which consists of ' preparing guest for building external kernel modules'Īnd our HDP 2.6.4 doesn't seem ready: the running kernel (4.4.x id I'm right) and the kernel-devel and kernel-headers versions do not match), which is a condition that is checked during the installation process. In Virtualbox documentation Chapter 4 Guest Additions, it is said Not really ! The devil is inside the details. The instructions given in the article avoid to mention a setup pre-requisite which is 'Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions' on the guest machine, that is to say installing it on our CentOS based HDP Sandbox VM.

Virtualbox mount shared folder