Csdrhrt

Good evening.

So, I have been trying to install the virtualbox guest additions onto my Kali Linux VM for the past couple of days now and I am at a loss for why it's not working.

For starters, the host machine is running Windows 10. I am running VirtualBox version 5.1.18. In addition, I have been using Kali Linux version 2016.2 for a 64 bit OS.

I have tried several different methods for installing the guest additions. The first method was inserting the guest cd under the devices menu for my VM. I was able to see the disk on the desktop of the vm but when I tried to launch the software inside it errored with the message: Cannot find program.

I then tried the official way on the kali docs found here. Those commands worked fine and things were installed. However, upon reboot the seamless mode and auto-resize guest option for my vm were still greyed out.

I tried doing those two methods twice, each with a brand new VM.

My final method came from SuperUser as found here. I followed the comment talking about editing /etc/apt/sources.list. The commands below it worked until the apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) command. The vm errored saying:

E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.6.0-kali-amd64

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.6.0-kali-amd64'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.6.0-kali-amd64'

If any of you know what I can do to try and get this to work please let me know. Thank you so much in advance for your help.

Cheers!

-Smalls

Try this procedure:

1. 
   

   install linux headers

   
   
   

   sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms
   
   

   
   



2. mount CD VBoxGuestAdditions



3. 
   

   get into that cd and run

   
   
   

   sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
   
   

   
   

Wait until it installs and reboot the VM

This worked for me:

apt-get purge virtualbox-guest-x11

apt-get autoremove --purge

reboot

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot

apt-get update

apt-get install -y virtualbox-guest-x11

reboot

This worked for me on Linux kali 4.14.0-kali3-amd64

apt-get remove && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

reboot

apt-get install -y virtualbox-guest-x11

reboot

Then

apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

mount /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso /mnt

cd /mnt

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

reboot

or

Virtual Box Menu: Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD..

mkdir VBox

cp -Rv /media/cdrom0/* ~/Vbox/

cd Vbox/

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

reboot