In the same way, select Drag & Drop and choose the Bidirectional option. n -nox11 Step 6: Enable Share Clip and Drag & Drop featuresĬlick on the Devices given in the Oracle VirtualBox menu and then click Share Clipboard and select “ Bidirectional“. Now, in your terminal mount the CDROM that contains the script to install Virtual Guest Additions on AlmaLinux sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom

Go to the Virtualbox menu > Device and then select the “Install Guest Additions CD Image…” option. Thus, it is better to run the Kernel update command before restarting the system sudo dnf update kernel-* Step 4: Insert Install Guest Additions CD Image Step 3: Update the KernelĪlthough, the system will perform the update of the kernel automatically to make the changes, however, sometimes it may not. Give your permission to install by typing Y and hitting the Enter Key.

sudo dnf install gcc make perl kernel-devel kernel-headers bzip2 dkms The next thing is with the help of the EPEL repository we will install several tools kernel and DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) to build and install the Kernel module required to install the Guest Addition feature VirtualBox on AlmaLinux 8 distro. Open the Command terminal and first-run system update command that is: sudo dnf updateĪfter that add the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, in short, known as EPEL using a simple command: sudo dnf install epel-release Step 2: Install Kernel headers and DKMS #Second Method VirtualBox Guest Additions installation on AlmaLinux 8

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