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Installing Linux Mint 10 VirtualBox Guest Additions

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 | Linux, Tech-savvy | 3 Comments

I had some trouble installing the VirtualBox guest additions to my Mint 10 VM using the “standard” way (via the “Devices” menu). It failed setting up a proper X driver (Warning: unknown version of the X Window system installed. Not installing X Window system drivers). I was stuck with a 800×600 resolution.

After some research (and a few not so successful hints) I came across a pretty neat solution. Fire up your VM and simply install the guest additions using apt inside your VM:

user@vm ~ $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

dkms and x11 packages will be installed automatically. Now restart your VM and your guest additions should be up and running … hopefully :)

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