Install the Enhancement Tool on the virtualbox centos Client

Virtualbox centos Client installation Enhancement Tool VirtualBox is habitually referred to as Vbox, which is smaller than the volume of VM, open source, fast speed. However, after using VirtualBox to install CentOS in a virtual machine, you cannot directly run the client enhancement function installed with VirtualBox. You must simply configure it to install the VirtualBox client enhancement function on the CentOS virtual machine. Next, let's take a look at the graphic tutorial "installing VirtualBox client enhancement for CentOS 5.5 virtual machines" provided by OwnLinux. 1. Start the CentOS 5.5 virtual machine installed in VirtualBox, and click "device" => "Install enhancement ". At this time, you can see that a "cd" has been mounted to the CentOS 5.5 desktop. It contains components for installing VirtualBox client enhancement. Note: Normally, you can directly run the VirtualBox client enhancement component mounted to the system. However, you need to configure CentOS. If you install it directly, the following error will occur. Bulding the VirtualBox Guest Additions Kernel modules failedYour system does not seem to be set up to build kernel modules. look at/var/log/vboxadd-install.log to find out what went worg. once you have corrected it, you run/etc/init. d/vboxadd setupto build them 2. you need to install related components for compiling the kernel. Yum install kernel-devel gcc 3. after the installation is complete, connect ln-s/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.18.el5-i686/usr/src/linux. Note: You must perform this operation, otherwise, the VirtualBox client will also report an error during the installation process. "2.6.18-92.1.18.el5-i686" indicates the kernel version. Different versions may be different. You need to enter the version based on your system kernel. 4. Install the VirtualBox client Enhancement Tool. Choose the VirtualBox client enhancement tool that is consistent with your system to install, where the VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run works for 32 systems and the VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run is for 64-bit systems. Run the following command to install sh./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run 5. After successful installation, restart the system.